Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin
Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. John Stuart Mill
We deserve better
Brutus
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Happy 4th of July !
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I always remember that the signers of the Declaration risked their lives. In this letter written by Dr. Benjamin Rush to John Adams (both signers), Rush remembers the fears and sleepless nights of the signers, and the atmosphere in the room.
“Do you recollect the pensive and awful silence which pervaded the house when we were called up, one after another, to the table of the President of Congress to subscribe what was believed by many at that time to be our own death warrants? The silence and the gloom of the morning were interrupted … by Colonel Harrison of Virginia, who said to Mr. Elbridge Gerry at the table: ‘I shall have a great advantage over you, Mr. Gerry, when we are all hung for what we are now doing. From the size and weight of my body I shall die in a few minutes, but from the lightness of your body you will dance in the air an hour or two before you are dead.’ The speech procured a transient smile, but it was soon succeeded by the solemnity with which the whole business was conducted.”
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Perhaps a young generation of patriots will come to the realization that a cabal of plutocrats has hijacked their future and their country’s future. That their government – national; state; local – is the paid agent of an oligarchy and it is not working for them and their children? Then we’ll see who hangs? It won’t be the patriots.
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john stuart mill, was he describing john cook ?
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