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To: angkor
[There is no more profound sentence than this: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness..."]
 
Profound, but profoundly impotent without a means by which to secure those rights.
 
"To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men"
 
A principal over which the tyrant British Crown and the writers of our Declaration of Independence seemed to differ.
 
A principal which those who presently suckle upon government's various collective appendages - seem to have forgotten or ignored.
 
The function of government is not to serve itself.
 
Government's function is to secure the rights of the Individual.
 
"To Secure These Rights"
 
Remember?

15 posted on 07/04/2008 7:45:37 AM PDT by LomanBill (A bird flies because the right wing opposes the left.)
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To: LomanBill
The function of government is not to serve itself. Government's function is to secure the rights of the Individual.

Au contraire.

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."

17 posted on 07/04/2008 7:50:31 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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