Now is the time to look to the principles of our written Constitution and the writings and speeches of the great minds who conceived and authored our documents of liberty for guidance.
Our time is better spent, for instance, in studying the words and Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson in order to understand the formula for restoring the ideas of liberty and preserving freedom for our own posterity and the world!
Let's read the words of the Author of our Declaration of Independence and President of the U. S., Thomas Jefferson, who, in his 1801 Inaugural Address, laid out what might be considered to be "qualifications" for the American presidency, as well as the way to regain what Jefferson called, "the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety":(Excerpt, "Our Ageless Constitution," p. xiv, reformatted)(End of Excerpted Portion of Jefferson's First Inaugural)
"Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation;- entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them;
- enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man;
- acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter
—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?
- 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.
"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you,
- it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.
- Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political;
- peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;
- the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;
- the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad;
- a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided;
- absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism;
- a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;
- the supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
- economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened;
- the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith;
- encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid;
- the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason;
- freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.
These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."
When you’re fighting for your Liberty it is war! It is not despair to fight for your Liberty. You pick your best weapons and you pick and devise your best plan how to beat the enemy.
The words of our Founding Fathers are dear and precious truly. But sitting here reading flowery words is not going to get the job done. And you are forgetting some of the most important words our Founding Fathers said,IMHO. John Adams stated that our” constitution was made only for a moral and religious people”. Do you really think that describes the people that we are dealing with here in this present situation? The thugs at the riots, the leftists all hate God as well as hate America. The Liberals are anti-moral or had you not noticed, dear friend, all the way from the celebs to the Judge Robart. From abortions any day, anyway you want it, to trans this and trans that, if it’s moral they’re against it, if it’s right they don’t like it.
I believe it was Jefferson who said every 200 years we need to have a new Revolution. It’s just like every so often you need to clean the garbage out of the refrigerator. So if Trump can’t get it done and they stop Trump, it’s bye bye country? Before that I would rather see him declare martial law and go after all the scum in this country take their money and their power from them and get a voter ID law and then he can ask us in four years if we want him back or not.
Fellow FReeper, I did not intend you to take my words as a criticism. I love the same words that you do we are patriots. My point was only that at times like this we have to use whatever that are means to save our Republic. When so many Marxists have gotten into so many high places and so much globalist money has bought off so many in our government it may be time for ONE man to take the reins and clean up the mess. I for one trust President Trump completely and believe he is on a mission from God. And I will support whatever means he uses to correct the situation.
If our side follows the law and Constitution exactly and yet we lose because as Adams said it only works with a moral people, then will you feel better going to bed and rest well knowing that we have followed the Constitution but yet how will you feel when you wake up a Slave and your Liberty is gone? That was the only point I was making. Democracy if you do an intense study of it is not a perfect form of government. I understand we are Republic but sir we are based on a democratic system. same difference, it ain’t always perfect.