“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say ‘what should be the reward of such sacrifices?’ Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”
Samuel Adams said that.
I – and you – and everyone of us has a moral debt, whether we acknowledge it or not, to those who sacrificed, fought, and died to preserve and protect our country, our Constitution and our freedom. If we do not preserve our freedom, we do not deserve it. If you and I don’t preserve our freedom, we give our children’s children a world of slavery. Now is the tipping point; the borrower is slave to the lender and we borrow and borrow without regard, and each time the chains of slavery wind tighter around our future. We must be done with this socialism, done with the nanny state. Find a way and fight it; don’t go with this subreptitious flow.
