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Posted on 02/16/2020 10:44:36 AM PST by Jim Robinson
John Adams
Letter to Abigail Adams (3 July 1776); in response to the official adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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"Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America;
and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men.
A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are,
and of right ought to be, free and independent States."John Adams
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trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
John Adams
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"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.."Ralph Waldo Emerson
( written for the 1837 dedication of the Obelisk, a monument in Concord,
Massachusetts commemorating the Battle of Concord, the second in a series
of battles and skirmishes on April 19, 1775 at the outbreak of the American Revolution.)
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"By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability and expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, altho' death was levelling my companions on every side.”
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to John A. Washington, Jul. 18, 1755
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"It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this.
The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity."Alexander Hamilton
Speech in New York, urging ratification of the U.S. Constitution (1788-06-21)
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"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged
for among old parchments or musty records.
They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole
volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself;
and can never be erased."Alexander Hamilton
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"The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be liable to such limitations, as are necessary for the security of the absolute rights of the latter; for what original title can any man or set of men have, to govern others, except their own consent?
To usurp dominion over a people, in their own despite, or to grasp at a more extensive power than they are willing to entrust, is to violate that law of nature, which gives every man a right to his personal liberty; and can, therefore, confer no obligation to obedience."Alexander Hamilton
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"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights; that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
For the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."Thomas Jefferson
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"When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents,
when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights,
when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands,
then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state,
and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution."Thomas Jefferson
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"The care of human life and happiness,
and not their destruction,
is the first and only legitimate object of good government."Thomas Jefferson
"To the Republican Citizens of Washington County, Maryland" (March 31, 1809).
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