Can you define 'sedition'?
I doubt it.
Especially if you always confuse patriotism with sedition.
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"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce and brave man, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." - Mark Twain
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Oxford English Dictionary definition of patriot = "one who exerts himself to promote the well-being of his country; one who maintains his country's freedom or rights"
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"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction." - Ronald Reagan
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Ben Franklin said something that was often repeated during the American Revolutionary War: "they that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." It is no less true today.
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"The greatest threats to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Justice Brandeis
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"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad...."
"Of all the enemies of public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, and the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches..." - James Madison
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"When the people fear the government, you have TYRANNY, when the government fears the people, you have FREEDOM" - Thomas Jefferson
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"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." - Daniel Webster
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"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors; they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men ." - Samuel Adams
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... There are quite a few blockheads in America today who falsely wear the label "conservative."
Some blockheads equate being a conservative with ardent support of any war, no matter how unconstitutional, unnecessary and unjust the war might be. A true conservative supports the Constitution and does not support anybody or anything that violates it. Some people have said there is a resemblance between America today and the Weimar Republic, which eventually produced Adolf Hitler. I think there is some truth to that comparison. There are an awful lot of heel-clickers who swoon with admiration for any politician willing to bomb some foreigners. These same people are more than willing to trade liberty (which they make little use of anyway) for security. That is not conservatism.
A wonderful Southern scholar, Dr. Clyde Wilson, has defined the difference between patriotism and nationalism. A patriot, he says, loves his land and his people; a nationalist loves his government. A conservative wishes to preserve the prosperity and health of both the land and the people, not squander them in unnecessary wars.
Then there are those blockheads who think that if you do not support Republicans you can't be a conservative. These people merely show their ignorance of American politics. The Bush family has always been a pillar of what conservatives refer to as the "Rockefeller Wing" of the Republican Party. That's the liberal wing. They are for big government, globalism and imperialism. Bush only seems conservative in comparison with the radical left, which now constitutes the majority in the Democratic Party.
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Patrick Henry spoke these famous prophetic words, as much to us today as to his fellow patriots in 1775: "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" |
