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Declaration of Independence
Why did we want to be free? Why was a bloody revolution necessary? Wasn't it better to just do as we were told?
What abuses caused the ideas of liberty and freedom to become such a motivating force? Was God really in the thoughts of our founders?
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Constitution of the US
In the first 13 years after the Declaration of Independence, there was a recognized need
to fix some problems. Also, the norm for all of history had been tyranny and oppression by governments.
This document defined a government like none other the world had known.
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Some great quotes:
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up,
and continue on as if nothing had happened”.
Winston Churchill
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from
wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. "
Thomas Jefferson
"I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous
for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges
is apt to make my blood boil."
Benjamin Franklin
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually
without effort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative
of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.
Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the US
"All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in
the Constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, as much as from
downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. "
John Adams, 2nd President of the US
"The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against
the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills
or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control
the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks
and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property
until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered. "
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the US
"If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink,
in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings
and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come
to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these
to the government for their debts and daily expenses; And the sixteen being insufficient
to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think,
no means of calling the mismanagers to account; But be glad to obtain subsistence
by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers;
And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance
becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of society
is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering...
and the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train
wretchedness and oppression. "
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the US
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