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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: callithump on October 14, 2009, 11:54:19 PM
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There is not a Democrat in Washington who can say these words and mean it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZBTyTWOZCM
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Red Skelton was one of the funniest comedians, but most of all, one of the greatest Freemason's from Indiana. What he says all those years ago are relevant today. And with this, many Americans have taken advantage of this pledge and forget that we are "under God". Without God in Our Nation, we are without direction and responsibility of our actions. This leads to the decline of morals and norms of Our Country. We must take it back from the ignorance and nihilistic attitude of future generations. They must be held accountable and called into question. Hopefully they can be corrected and start us on a straightline pass to right Our Great Nation and take back the respect we have lost all these years with leaders who have forgotten the basis of our existence. Brian "Ping" Harless
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Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.
John Adams, draft of a Newspaper Communication, Circa August 1770
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superior to all private passions.
John Adams, letter to Mercy Warren, April 16, 1776
The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now. They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty.
John Adams, letter to Zabdiel Adams, June 21, 1776
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
James Madison, Federalist No. 10, November 23, 1787
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.
James Madison, letter to Edmund Pendleton, January 21, 1792
There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison, speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 16, 1788
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Nice words from Madison and Adams, Tom. The forefathers of our great Nation were indeed enlightened. Just wondering how it all went downhill from there? ???
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The "Faction" that they dreaded so badly in the "Federalist Papers" learned to use the bread and circuses approach . Our loss of the Republic has it's basic roots in the repeal of property qualifications for voting. If everyone who votes has a stake in the result they are going to strive to smooth trade and profits.
But if you take those who would be left out, because they pay minimal taxes while creating no jobs, and promise them "something" that sounds like for nothing, they will follow like sheep.
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"bread and circuses approach" ?
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Bread and Circuses approach = I'll give you money from the rich if you vote for me. "Entitlement programs"