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Friday, July 3, 2009

American Independence Day Thoughts...

"When the government has more power than the people, that's TYRANNY. when the people have more power than the government, that's LIBERTY." - Thomas Jefferson


"America is too great for small dreams." -Ronald Reagan


"I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts. " -Ronald Reagan

"Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin

In response to concern over the world's view of the United States regarding its operations abroad:
"You have enemies? Good! That means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill

"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
- Patrick Henry

Apprapot to the recent nomination of Judge Sotomayor as Assoc. Justice to the Supreme Court and her penchant for judicial activism:
" They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men." - John Adams


"Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation." - James Madison


God Bless America and thank you to all who have served in defense of It.

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