“- Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”
Are 535 people listening? The only 535 with the right and power to restore what they and the other two supports for the stool of government have, over time, stolen from the citizens of this great nation.
To honor America’s Founders and Framers of its Constitution, and to honor Lincoln and his dedication to their ideas and principles, as expressed in this letter of April 1859, let’s distribute the Lincoln letter and Jefferson’s 1801 Inaugural Address to as many citizens as possible this week, while attention is on the current President’s omission of “under God” from the Gettysburg Address, as well as his determined efforts to violate every principle expressed in Jefferson’s Inaugural.