Samuel Adams Quote 

"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can
any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is
preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant,
and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own
weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders."

by:
Samuel Adams
(1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."
Source:
letter to James Warren, 4 November 1775. Reference: Our Sacred Honor, Bennett (261)
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"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." Benjamin Franklin
 -- Anon		 
One of my favorite founders. A wise observation indeed and it is happening before our very eyes.
 -- J Carlton, Calgary		 
 -- jim k, austin 
Is it really necessary for the progressives (short for professional regressives) to drag the rest of us down with them? We tried to leave this sinking ship once, and they pulled us back in.
 -- Justin, Elkland		 
WOW, but that I could rate this a thousand times. Good statements all. I do not believe that America has yet been sufficiently dummied down or fraught with immoralities that a remnant will not yet rise and throw off the statist theocracy's chains set by the foreign invaders and, the domestic universally ignorant debauched in their manners.
 -- Mike, Norwalk		 
Yes, we definitely seem to be going along that road. Mike I did answer your last post re Aug 14th sorry for the delay I have been building a wall.
 -- RBESRQ		 
I see the ignorance daily. In my local bar an acquaintance said to me "the US is a republic not a democracy", Yesterday in Gatlinburg, Tenn. a hotel counter man said to me, "the US is a republic but we elect our government by the democratic method", he then went on to pick an argument with or look down upon the old fashioned term Commonwealth, as in Virginia Commonwealth or Pennsylvania Commonwealth, or the British Commonwealth of Nations. He wondered "what is a commonwealth". I explained that it is just another word for "state". Just as many New Enlgand and English towns use the term "the commons" to refer to the village square the term Commonwealth relates to the property (roads, dams. parks, buildings, infrastructure, land) belonging to the people as a whole, held in common. How is it that grown folk in this country have become so ignorant of common sense and common terminology. I am attempting on this site and in all of my contacts to counter this ignorance and debauched way of thinking. Yours for the diffusion of knowledge and the preservation of virtue, I remain, forever yours da Waffler.
 -- Waffler, Smith		 
Which is why each of us should spend time furthering the foundational principles of Liberty -- just say no to arbitrary authority!
 -- E Archer, NYC		 
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