we the people are simply missin’ in America today, 24/7 the simple basic – fundamental – requirement of freedom…
… RESPONSIBILITY.
These two American fellas grasped momentarily what freedom requires… they shared it… now, it’s gone... buy buy…
· Extract from Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith
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Paris Nov. 13. 1787. |
the people can not be all, & 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 a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. we have had 13. states independant 11. years. there has been one rebellion. that comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. what country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & 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 & tyrants. it is it’s natural manure. Source: https://tjrs.monticello.org/letter/100
· “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country,” JFKennedy, January 20, 1961
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