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REUBEN FORD FOUNDATION All that evil needs to do to triumph is for good men to do nothing... Vol 1-1 I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. Patrick Henry
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ThThomas Paine (1737-1809)
Birthday - January 29
These are the times that try men’s souls.
“The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too light- ly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
“Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon
its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”
Benjamin
Franklin (1706-1790) Birthday - January 17
“When the people find that they can vote them- selves money, that will her- ald the end of the republic...
“Wish not so much to live long as to live well...Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
If America’s Roots Are Destroyed, We Will Surely Shrivel & Die
Just as a tree in the natural has no hope of survival when severed from its roots, America is doomed to fail, if our root system is ignored or done away with.
Factions are now working feverishly on many fronts to separate America from the roots of its founding. Where we as a people came from must never be forgotten. The decisions we make today, will determine our future destination.
We believe America is too strong to be attacked and destroyed from abroad, yet weak enough to be destroyed from within. We must not merely focus on our strong points, overlooking our weak points.
The content of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address rings out in clarity to our gen- eration some 160 years later. Let’s update this address to what we are now facing in America:
Two-hundred and twenty-four years ago. our fathers brought forth on this con- tinent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in turbulent times, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure... It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and, both by precept and example, in- culcated on mankind. And it is now generally agreed among Christians that this spirit of toleration, in the fullest extent consistent with the being of civil soci- ety, is the chief characteris- tic mark of the Church...
“The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.... Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the prin- ciples of virtue early incul- cated on the minds even
of children, and the moral sense kept alive...
“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.”
ThThomas Jefffferson (1743-1826)
Birthday - April 13
“The greatest danger to American freedom, is a government that ignores the constitution.”
Samuel Adams (1722-1803) Birthday - September 27
Founding member of Sons of Liberty Adams wrote The Rights of the Colonists
As Men four years before the Declaration of Independence.
“Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.
“All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another...
“All positive and civil laws should conform, as far as possible, to the law of natural reason and equity.
“As neither reason requires nor religion permits the contrary, every man living in or out of a state of civil society has a right peaceably and quietly to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.
“Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty,” in matters spiritual and temporal, is a thing that all men
George Washington (1722-1803) Birthday - February 22
Transcript of a portion of President George Washington’s Farewell Address (September 19, 1796) “... in the course of time and things... cunning, ambi-
tious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, de- stroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion... One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to
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are clearly entitled to by the eternal and immutable laws of God and nature, as well as by the law of nations and all well-grounded municipal laws, which must have their foundation in the former.
“In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof
Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
Birthday - May 29
“Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”