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Students at Lincoln Memorial Told to Stop Singing National Anthem

Posted on August 9, 2010 | No Comments
So…………………………….. We are no longer allowed, in this “Free Country”, to sing The (Our) National Anthem at the Lincoln Memorial!!?? I’m not even sure what I want to say about this. There is nothing good that I can say. When we...
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Health Care Reform.

Posted on December 23, 2009 | No Comments
What do you think George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, or Abraham Lincoln would think of “Heath Care Reform”? It’s not what they had envisioned for this country. Some would say it is what they would want but if that were true our forefathers...
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The Gettysburg Address

Posted on September 1, 2009 | No Comments
This was written 146 years ago. It is as important and pertinent today as it was then. The war may be being waged in a different way, a different battle field, but this war does continue today. Not north and south but...
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The Declaration of Independence

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.”

“The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith from spiritual faith to great courage from courage to liberty from liberty to abundance from abundance to selfishness from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy from apathy to dependency from dependency back to bondage.”
—Alexander Tyler (Lord Woodhouselee)

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