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To: PeterPrinciple
We will not enter the fight until we have lost everything. Let me repeat that, we will not enter the fight until we have nothing left to lose.

That's not right. That's just immoral and wrong. Our founders never had that intention, they risked all they had plus Morris dancing at NewGate and worse to fight King George and give us the freest greatest nation ever.

If you wait till you have nothing to lose, its probably too late. I know people who did that BTW and they lost everything and try as they might they can't get it back.

6 posted on 09/15/2016 6:35:14 AM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: mainestategop

For all here at FR.

If I shake you awake in the middle of the night and ask you what the 10 principles of conservatism are, what you tell me after you reach for your gun?

http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/detail/ten-conservative-principles/

Understanding human nature is part of being a conservative:

Sixth, conservatives are chastened by their principle of imperfectability. Human nature suffers irremediably from certain grave faults, the conservatives know. Man being imperfect, no perfect social order ever can be created. Because of human restlessness, mankind would grow rebellious under any utopian domination, and would break out once more in violent discontent—or else expire of boredom. To seek for utopia is to end in disaster, the conservative says: we are not made for perfect things. All that we reasonably can expect is a tolerably ordered, just, and free society, in which some evils, maladjustments, and suffering will continue to lurk. By proper attention to prudent reform, we may preserve and improve this tolerable order. But if the old institutional and moral safeguards of a nation are neglected, then the anarchic impulse in humankind breaks loose: “the ceremony of innocence is drowned.” The ideologues who promise the perfection of man and society have converted a great part of the twentieth-century world into a terrestrial hell.


10 posted on 09/15/2016 7:01:21 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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