From our founding fathers. Feel free to add to it with quotes from those who created this nation or otherwise.
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1. Never trade liberty for security.
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin2. America was always thought of as exceptional.
“The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.” – John Adams3. We need to be united.
“We must be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must hang together.” – John Hancock4. Always be prepared.
“Let us prepare for the worst. We can die here but once.” — Abraham Clark5. Be willing to lay down your life for freedom.
“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?” — Benjamin Rush6. Don’t take your rights for granted.
“Let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.” — Thomas Jefferson7. Take time to reflect.
“I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment for reflection or for the discharge of any other then the most immediate and pressing concerns.” – Edward Rutledge8. Being a nation of laws provides security.
“The great object of a free people must be so to form their government and laws, and so to administer them, as to create a confidence in, and respect for, the laws; and thereby induce the sensible and virtuous part of the community to declare in favor of the laws and to support them without an expensive military force.” – Richard Henry Lee9. Arguing with an unreasonable person is a waste of time.
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” – Thomas Paine10. Be bold and speak the truth.
“Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.” – Lewis Morrishttps://caffeinatedthoughts.com/201...e-signers-of-the-declaration-of-independence/
