Posted on 01/22/2017 11:32:53 AM PST by EveningStar
What a great speech!
(Excerpt, "Our Ageless Constitution," p. xiv, reformatted)
"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."
Then, we might consider the words of the man known as "the father of the Constitution" under which all government officials, elected and appointed, must serve:
Excerpt:Excerpt "Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, “that Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the Manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.”Is there anywhere a clearer statement of the underlying principle of the U. S. Constitution's provisions and protections for "the People's" rights and liberties?"The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable; because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also; because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage, and such only, as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent both in order of time and degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society. Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe: And if a member of Civil Society, who enters into any subordinate Association, must always do it with a reservation of his duty to the general authority; much more must every man who becomes a member of any particular Civil Society, do it with a saving of his allegiance to the Universal Sovereign. We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man’s right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance." - James Madison
The very foundation of the Founders' Declaration of Independence from a "government-over-people" rule to one of a people's recognition of "overruling Providence" and "people-over-government" liberty was summarized in Jefferson's,
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."In our generation, have we not, at times, seen that "hand of force" unmasked at the same time as that same "hand" not only is reluctant to recognize Madison's "Creator," "the Governor of the Universe," and "Universal Sovereign," or Jefferson's "the God who gave us life," but utilizes that "hand of force" to deny public discourse to include those descriptions in its "politically-correct" discourse or teaching of the youth of America?
And all the insiders, traitors and D.C. disciples of deceit were sitting right behind him.
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Loved it!!! Great speech!!! Inspired new. Blows my mind that others can hear it and do not hear anything remotely what I heard.
I initially did not think it was that good of a speech until I actually read it and gave it thought. And it dawned on myself that it WAS a direct message to the DC crowd through him, from the American people.
Please, oh please President Trump, get your cabinet members to investigate the corruption, deliberate slowdown of work and outright radical opposition to conservatives within the Federal agencies. Therein is your number one problem causing all of the other problems in the nation.
Trump has stepped into a World Historic moment which demands a real reform, if he can’t handle it the darkness and destruction will be back.
IMHO he has as good a chance as anyone else.
Trump has stepped into a World Historic moment which demands a real reform, if he can’t handle it the darkness and destruction will be back.
IMHO he has as good a chance as anyone else.
Many are hearing it through the long-imposed “progressive” and tyrannical mindset.
. . . and interesting that he did not acknowledge his opponent Hillary.
He should have said, ‘President Clinton and Cankles’ . . .
Inauguration: Trump references self three times.
Obama’s last speech: He referenced self close 75 times.
Obama referenced himself in relation to problems.
Trump addresses our citizens in relation to problems.
The media recoiled after that speech. When they switched back to the media anchors, they were caught stunned and gawking at the cameras .
What a great speech. And one has to ask themselves, why is the opposition so angry about a leader wanting to support his own country and it’s own people?
That should be the response from everyone, every GOP’er who gets asked about the speech , every GOP supporting talking head. Everyone !
Make the person asking the question explain what's wrong with an American leader wanting to support his own country & people? Make them answer that first before any other discussion! No wondering off into theoretical nuances, make them answer that question first or interview or discussion of the topic is over!
“Today’s acolytes of the Global Economy have discovered nothing new; they have simply rewritten the rules of trade to conform to their ideology and to benefit themselves at the expense of their country and their countrymen.
Better the occasional sins of a government acting of a spirit of charity than the constant omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. So it has been said. America’s elites, smug and arrogant masters of the “world’s last superpower”, are frozen in the ice of their own ideology. And the steam is building beneath.” P 15 The Great Betrayal 1998.
Note the book is some 20 years ago "And the steam is building beneath" is in one of Pat’s prophetic books. Note also, reference to the ‘elites’. The steam has broken through. Congratulations President Trump. Make America Great Again.
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Yep, the opposition’s position seems pretty darn clear.
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