"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American Constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society." ~ John Adams, Novanglus Letters, 1774
Dear Lord..These men were brilliant! They have pegged American Society, today!
Fight these people who would destroy our Nation!
Jess
Blog: Politically Thinking
Twitter: @gopthinking
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
America will fail because we are ignorant of history, thus doomed to repeat it!
Over 200 years ago, Professor Alexander Tytler wrote, "A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess (money or benefits)from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship."
John Adams, in a letter written to John Taylor, April 15, 1814... "Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, & murders itself. There never was a democracy yet, that did not commit suicide."
Wow!! I have always heard the saying, "Those who do not know history, are doomed to repeat it." After reading that, it made it hit home. The system, America has, its been around before..They are no more!
Question is...What will you and I do about this? Leave some comments!
Thanks, Jess
Blog: Politically Thinking
Twitter:@gopthinking
John Adams, in a letter written to John Taylor, April 15, 1814... "Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, & murders itself. There never was a democracy yet, that did not commit suicide."
Wow!! I have always heard the saying, "Those who do not know history, are doomed to repeat it." After reading that, it made it hit home. The system, America has, its been around before..They are no more!
Question is...What will you and I do about this? Leave some comments!
Thanks, Jess
Blog: Politically Thinking
Twitter:@gopthinking
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
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