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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Garlic Breath who wrote (141045)8/16/2012 10:43:46 PM
From: PROLIFE1 Recommendation  Respond to of 224748
 
<<I think true Americans will not shoot on other Americans>>

ever hear of the Civil War?

or any of several quotes?

"... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)


The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

Patrick Henry

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." George Washington


ELBRIDGE GERRY

"Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins."

Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts





To: Garlic Breath who wrote (141045)8/17/2012 11:41:36 PM
From: Farmboy1 Recommendation  Respond to of 224748
 
I'd hope so, but unfortunately there are always some who think they can advance their personal cause by kissing up .. and those are the ones "We the People" have to worry about.

I hope you're right though. We've seen a lot of countrymen firing on their fellow countrymen in the mid-east his year ..


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