[PsyOp]

Just a little something to get everyone in the right frame of mind for Independence Day. This post is dedicated to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. One Nation Under God!

[PsyOp]

4th of July Quote Ping!

[PJ-Comix]

He who laughs last was too dumb to figure out the joke first...

A bird in the hand is messier than two in the bush...

A stitch in time won't same you a dime but at least it makes this stupid saying rhyme...

The early bird gets the early worm...

...Benjamin Franklin (as interpreted by PJ-Comix)

[ProudEagle]

BTTT. Good read. Happy 4th.

[TADSLOS]

bookmarking for liberty.

[lds23]

"The results should have been predictable, since a human being has no natural rights of any nature"

Mr. Dubois had paused. Somebody took the bait. "Sir? How about 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'?"

"Ah, yes, the 'unalienable rights.' Each year someone quotes that magnificent poetry. Life? What 'right' to life has a man who is drowning in the Pacific? The ocean will not hearken to his cries. What 'right' to life has a man who must die if he is to save his children? If he chooses to save his own life, does he do so as a matter of 'right'? If two men are starving and cannibalism is the only alternative to death, which man's right is 'unalienable'? And is it 'right'? As to liberty, the heroes who signed that great document pledged themselves to buy liberty with their lives. Liberty is always unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it is always vanquished. Of all the so-called 'natural human rights' that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost."

"The third 'right'?- the 'pursuit of happiness'? It is indeed unalienable but it is not a right; it is simply a universal condition which tyrants cannot take away nor patriots restore. Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives - but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it."

Mr. Dubois then turned to me. "I told you that 'juvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty'. But duty is an adult virtue - indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be, a 'juvenile delinquent'. But for every juvenile criminal there are always one or more adult delinquents - people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail."

"And that was the soft spot which destroyed what was in many ways an admirable cultrue. The junior hoodlums who roamed their streets were symptoms of a greater sickness; their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constitutued, can endure."

- Robert Heinlein , Starship Troopers

[El Gato]

You will march with the utmost expedition and secrecy to Concord, where you will seize all the artillery and ammunition you can find... - Orders to LTC Francis Smith from British General Gage.

The best part is, they didn't find any artillery, or ammunition. Some powder and other colonial stores, but the artillery, such as it was, had been hauled away and hidden in newly plowed furrows, then covered over by the action of plowing another furrow beside the first one. The Lobsterbacks marched right past the fields hiding the cannon. Smith, as fat as I am at least, got himself swarmed. Militia, alerted by Paul Revere and others sent on their own "midnight rides", marched toward Concord more quickly than the Brits coudl retreat back to Boston.

[rdf]

Wow!

bttt

CHEERS,

Richard F

[jae471]

I like the organiztion of the government into Legislative, Judicary, & Executive -- Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to James Madison, 20 December 1787

That these Powers ... are so distributed among the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches, into which the general Government is arranged, that it can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an Oligarchy, an Aristocracy, or any other despotic or oppresive form; so long as there shall remain any virtue in the body of the People. -- George Washington, in a letter to Marquis de Lafayette, 7 February 1788

The supreme power is in the people, and rulers possess only that portion which is expressly given them... -- "Federal Farmer"

[Ahban]

I LIKE it.

[swarthyguy]

Excellent, Thanks.

[rwfromkansas]

I know here that you will agree with me that standing up for America also means standing up for the God who has so blessed our land. I believe this country hungers for a spiritual revival. I believe it longs to see traditional values reflected in public policy again. To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The first amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny. - Ronald Reagan, Address Before a Joint Session of the Alabama State Legislature in Montgomery, March 15, 1982.

[ned]

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. Laws change, people die; the land remains. - Abraham Lincoln, Message to Congress, December 1, 1862.

Thanks for posting this thread. You're a MVF (Most Valuable Freeper).

[He Rides A White Horse]

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

........rights which our Creator Himself could only revoke.

....much to the chagrin of would be totalitarians everywhere.

[He Rides A White Horse]

There are those who attempt to argue against, or at least dilute the importance of God to our Founding Fathers.

God, the Creator, is something that set us apart from the rest of the pack.

No Feinstein, Hillary, Stalin, Gore, no person on the face of the earth has the right to deny us those rights endowed by our Creator.

[He Rides A White Horse]

To imply that rights are not granted by God is to imply that they are granted by men. Which of course implies that they can be revoked by men.

There is a reason why most of the founding patriots expressed a reverence to God. They wanted to make clear just where our rights came from.

[maranatha]

Thank you, what a marvelous collection. Right frame of mind bump to thread.

[jae471]

Bump

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the ping.

Bump.

[SAMWolf]

Poor is the nation that has no heroes.
Shameful is the one that, having heroes - Forgets them!

Those Who Have Long Enjoyed Such Privileges As We Enjoy,
Forget In Time that Men Have Died To Win Them.

[Askel5]

Wow ... thanks for the flag, PsyOps. Trust you enjoy your holiday.

(I'm going to see if I can't declare independence from clutter ... but shall make time to revisit your post on Thursday. =)