It sobers me to read this, having stumbled across it once again as I often do perusing various blogs.
It sobers me because although it was written hundreds of years ago it could have been written today, and withstanding some small details, be a perfectly accurate sentiment for the peril we face.
Maybe you’ve read it before. Maybe not. Read it anyhow. For me it resonates more strongly with each passing year.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/patrick.asp
Since I still can’t get the “read more” tag to work I’ve instead put a link up to the speech at another site.
Wombat, leave a couple of spaces, insert the tag then leave a couple more spaces before inserting the rest of the text.
I’ll try that on the next time around.
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
Timeless,another quote from another patriot and one of my ancestors is by Nathanael Greene-
“Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country’s cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the Great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety and rectitude thereof”
Those men put their all on the line to build the foundation of something great.Where are they today,where will we find them?
On the watch list.
Yep. Should the bastards come for us one day, we’ll be in the company of some illustrious ghosts.
These days if you’re not on their watchlist you’re not doing something right.