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1 posted on 04/28/2010 5:18:13 AM PDT by Loud Mime
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2 posted on 04/28/2010 5:18:44 AM PDT by Loud Mime (initialpoints.net - - The Constitution as the center of politics -- Download the graph)
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Deserves a bump


3 posted on 04/28/2010 5:19:21 AM PDT by Tribune7 (It is immoral to claim the tea parties to be racist)
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On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.

A perfect snapshot of current America.

5 posted on 04/28/2010 5:21:42 AM PDT by highlander_UW (First we take down the Democrats, then we clean the Augean stable that is the GOP.)
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Bookmark


6 posted on 04/28/2010 5:24:17 AM PDT by jersey117
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A most fitting piece of writing for our times.


7 posted on 04/28/2010 5:27:05 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to be feared."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
8 posted on 04/28/2010 5:28:04 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States Â… shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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Virtue is our best Security
13 posted on 04/28/2010 5:37:56 AM PDT by Loud Mime (initialpoints.net - - The Constitution as the center of politics -- Download the graph)
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14 posted on 04/28/2010 5:38:15 AM PDT by Semper Mark (Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. - Aristotle)
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Adams argues that public schools are the best means of promoting virtue? Clearly, the schools are promoting their concept of virtue. How’s that working out for us?


17 posted on 04/28/2010 5:42:15 AM PDT by Huck (Q: How can you tell a party is in the majority? A: They're complaining about the fillibuster.)
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“When People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders”

A bit long for a bumper sticker....but I’ll think of something.


18 posted on 04/28/2010 5:49:17 AM PDT by G Larry (DNC is comprised of REGRESSIVES!)
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Democratic and Democracy are two words not found anywhere in the U.S. Constitution.. for good reason.. No democracy has ever been democratic.. There is always an elite running things in a democracy.. Mob Rule by mobsters.. or a loose amalgam of mobs.. with an elite Mob at the top..


19 posted on 04/28/2010 5:50:57 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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My favorite of his....

“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”

Samuel Adams


20 posted on 04/28/2010 6:02:10 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue.

John Witherspoon, The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men, 1776

Sam Adams and John Witherspoon were and are exactly correct! Where do you suppose we are today?

23 posted on 04/28/2010 6:10:57 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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BFL


31 posted on 04/28/2010 6:35:31 AM PDT by zeugma (Waco taught me everything I needed to know about the character of the U.S. Government.)
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35 posted on 04/28/2010 8:54:22 AM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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I am simply amazed at the wisdom of these men.


37 posted on 04/28/2010 9:08:43 AM PDT by vpintheak (Love of God, Family and Country has made me an extremist.)
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To beer!!!

Oh wait, wrong thread...

39 posted on 04/28/2010 10:39:12 AM PDT by wastedyears (The Founders revolted for less.)
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Since private and publick Vices, are in Reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected...

Dedicated to all those liberals who said that Clinton's private dalliances had nothing to do with his performance as President.

49 posted on 04/28/2010 9:45:04 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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