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Where Are Today's Revolutionary Patriots - Ones like Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, George Mason ...
Samuel Adams said: "Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them." And "The natural liberty of man is...not to be under the will or legislative authority of man." It was Adams' great wish that American children and young adults would always be educated "in the art of self-government" so that future generations would always be capable of "assuming that freedom of thought and dignity of self-direction which [God] bestowed."
We need men and women today with this passion. We need more guardians of individual liberty. We need more citizens to love their country more than they want free stuff and to fight for her founding ideals. We need these citizens to open their minds to the true meaning of liberty and its security and to understand why it is essential that the government remain limited.
Thomas Jefferson was forever the voice of the rights of man. He explained the importance of the popular referendum (right to vote): "The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people. "
Dwight Eisenhower delivered the same message over a century later: "The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter."
With Americans today facing far more coercion and enjoying far less freedom to govern themselves than we once had, we need to recover the same devotion to liberty that Patrick Henry, Sam Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, George Mason, members of the Sons of Liberty, and so many others of our early years had. It is they who should always inspire us in our duty to the country. If progressives succeed in relegating such men to the "shameful racist" annals of American history, then we are lost. Samuel Adams once said: "If ye love the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
That is the question and over-all message I want to leave with this article: "Where are today's revolutionary patriots?"
References:
Mike Maharrey, "America Embraces the Tyranny its Founders Fought to Reject," The Tenth Amendment Center, January 8, 2016. (Re-posted on December 19, 2020).
Speech Delivered by Patrick Henry at the Virginia Convention Debate of the Ratification of the Constitution, on June 5, 1788 ("Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessing - give us that precious jewel, and you may take everything else!"). Referenced at: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/patrick-henry-virginia-ratifying-convention-va/
Speech Delivered by Patrick Henry at the Virginia Convention Debate of the Ratification of the Constitution
Patrick Henry on| June 7, 1788 (arguing for the critical need for a Bill of Rights to put absolute limits on the actions of government). Referenced at: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/speech-delivered-at-the-virginia-convention-debate-of-the-ratification-of-the-constitution-june-7-1788/
PODCAST & VIDEO ("Embracing What The Founders Sought to Destroy") - Embracing what the Founders Sought to Destroy | | Tenth Amendment Center Blog OR https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2020/12/embracing-what-the-founders-sought-to-destroy/
"She Doesn't Mean to Be a Debbie Downer, But...," The Rush Limbaugh Show, December 23, 2020.
Referenced at: https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/12/23/she-doesnt-mean-to-be-a-debbie-downer-but/
Thomas Jefferson, The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, John P. Foley, ed. (New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1900), p. 842.
Alexander Hamilton, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Harold C. Syrett, ed. (New York, Columbia University Press, 1962), Vol III, pp. 544-545
Patrick Henry's speech, delivered at Richmond, Virginia - March 23, 1775. Referenced at: http://www.emersonkent.com/speeches/give_me_liberty_or_give_me_death.htm
Voices of the Revolution: The Sons of Liberty. Referenced at: https://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-declaration-of-independence/sons-of-liberty/
"Raising a Glass to Samuel Adams," Foundation for Economic Education. Referenced at: https://fee.org/articles/raising-a-glass-to-sam-adams-18-choice-quotes-on-liberty/ [September 27 marks the anniversary of the birth of the Sons of Liberty].
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We need men and women today with this passion. We need more guardians of individual liberty. We need more citizens to love their country more than they want free stuff and to fight for her founding ideals. We need these citizens to open their minds to the true meaning of liberty and its security and to understand why it is essential that the government remain limited.
Thomas Jefferson was forever the voice of the rights of man. He explained the importance of the popular referendum (right to vote): "The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people. "
Dwight Eisenhower delivered the same message over a century later: "The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter."
With Americans today facing far more coercion and enjoying far less freedom to govern themselves than we once had, we need to recover the same devotion to liberty that Patrick Henry, Sam Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, George Mason, members of the Sons of Liberty, and so many others of our early years had. It is they who should always inspire us in our duty to the country. If progressives succeed in relegating such men to the "shameful racist" annals of American history, then we are lost. Samuel Adams once said: "If ye love the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
That is the question and over-all message I want to leave with this article: "Where are today's revolutionary patriots?"
References:
Mike Maharrey, "America Embraces the Tyranny its Founders Fought to Reject," The Tenth Amendment Center, January 8, 2016. (Re-posted on December 19, 2020).
Speech Delivered by Patrick Henry at the Virginia Convention Debate of the Ratification of the Constitution, on June 5, 1788 ("Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessing - give us that precious jewel, and you may take everything else!"). Referenced at: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/patrick-henry-virginia-ratifying-convention-va/
Speech Delivered by Patrick Henry at the Virginia Convention Debate of the Ratification of the Constitution
Patrick Henry on| June 7, 1788 (arguing for the critical need for a Bill of Rights to put absolute limits on the actions of government). Referenced at: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/speech-delivered-at-the-virginia-convention-debate-of-the-ratification-of-the-constitution-june-7-1788/
PODCAST & VIDEO ("Embracing What The Founders Sought to Destroy") - Embracing what the Founders Sought to Destroy | | Tenth Amendment Center Blog OR https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2020/12/embracing-what-the-founders-sought-to-destroy/
"She Doesn't Mean to Be a Debbie Downer, But...," The Rush Limbaugh Show, December 23, 2020.
Referenced at: https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/12/23/she-doesnt-mean-to-be-a-debbie-downer-but/
Thomas Jefferson, The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, John P. Foley, ed. (New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1900), p. 842.
Alexander Hamilton, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Harold C. Syrett, ed. (New York, Columbia University Press, 1962), Vol III, pp. 544-545
Patrick Henry's speech, delivered at Richmond, Virginia - March 23, 1775. Referenced at: http://www.emersonkent.com/speeches/give_me_liberty_or_give_me_death.htm
Voices of the Revolution: The Sons of Liberty. Referenced at: https://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-declaration-of-independence/sons-of-liberty/
"Raising a Glass to Samuel Adams," Foundation for Economic Education. Referenced at: https://fee.org/articles/raising-a-glass-to-sam-adams-18-choice-quotes-on-liberty/ [September 27 marks the anniversary of the birth of the Sons of Liberty].
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