Happy Birthday America! 250 Years!
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Happy Birthday America!
Here are a few quotes from the framers our country that the frogs and I enjoy.
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge — the truth.” - John Adams (1770s)
“He that dares not offend cannot be honest.” - Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (1776)
“Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.” Benjamin Rush
“The truth is always the strongest argument.” Mercy Otis Warren - Patriot Writer, 1805
Say what you want to say, but America is still the greatest country on Earth. It may not be perfect, I would say it is not perfect because men are not perfect, but it is still the government and country that affords the greatest number of freedoms.
Men will be Men, and will be prone to the pull of power and money. Like Ben Franklin stated in the 1787 Constitutional Convention, "There are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men: ambition and avarice… Place before the eyes of men a post of honor that shall be lucrative, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it." I think we have seen this, and I think we will continue to see this.
America will continue to survive and continue to provide freedoms as long as there are people who are willing to put aside power and money and work towards the growth and betterment of humanity. I will let the founding fathers themselves show this point.
“Public virtue cannot exist without private virtue, and public liberty cannot exist without public virtue.” - John Adams
“Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and requires the same sacrifice of private interest for the public good.” - Benjamin Rush
“The preservation of liberty requires that the whole people always possess virtue and vigilance.” - Gouverneur Morris
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