"Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it. "
~John Adams
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909 posted on 01/03/2012 3:39:22 PM PST by trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
Click the pic. "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers." - A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765 — John Adams
912 posted on 01/03/2012 3:46:16 PM PST by RedMDer
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