The Ruin of Liberties - Samuel Adams from 1771

Letters and Writings of Samuel Adams ^ | 12/9/1771 | Samuel Adams

[Loud Mime]

"If the liberties of America are ever compleatly ruined, of which in my opinion there is now the utmost danger, it will in all probability be the consequence of a mistaken notion of prudence, which leads men to acquiesce in measures of the most destructive tendency for the sake of present ease. When designs are form'd to rase the very foundation of a free government, those few who are to erect their grandeur and fortunes upon the general ruin, will employ every art to sooth the devoted people into a state of indolence, inattention and security, which is forever the fore-runner of slavery — They are alarmed at nothing so much, as attempts to awaken the people to jealousy and watchfulness; and it has been an old game played over and over again, to hold up the men who would rouse their fellow citizens and countrymen to a sense of their real danger, and spirit them to the most zealous activity in the use of all proper means for the preservation of the public liberty, as 'pretended patriots,' 'intemperate politicians,' rash, hotheaded men, Incendiaries, wretched desperadoes, who, as was said of the best of men, would turn the world upside down, or have done it already."

[Loud Mime]

Samuel Adams signed this letter with his pen name of "Candidus"

This essay is available in its entirety at the home link.

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[jwparkerjr]

Samuel Adams! More than just a good beer!

[Loud Mime]

He was a maltster, not a brewer.

[Sudetenland]

We now see the failings of our education system in full. If educators were truly interested in educating our children, they would do well to return to the curriculaum upon which our founding fathers were raised, brought up to date for current technology.

I have yet to have failed to be amazed at the quality of the reasoning and the depth of thought all of these Founding Fathers demonstrate in their writings.

The reason that we have no Adamses, Hamiltons, or Madisons is because we don't educate our young people to think.

We have allowed Liberals to so dumb down our education system that our nation is now at risk. These guys were brilliant because they were taught to think...mostly from the Bible and from reading the Classics.

"Reading, and 'riting, and 'rithmetic, taught to the tune of a hickory stick," may seem primitive by today's standards, but it is difficult to argue with the results.

[Charles Martel]

Someone should send this to Sarah Palin.

[Huck]

those few who are to erect their grandeur and fortunes upon the general ruin

Beautifully said.

a state of indolence, inattention and security, which is forever the fore-runner of slavery

Makes me shiver and shake my head.

Here's one from Bob Dylan, "Summer Days":

"Politician's got on his jogging shoes,
Must be runnin' for office, got no time to lose,
He's been sucking the blood out of the genius of generosity,
You been rollin' your eyes, you been teasin' me."

[LearsFool]

And so history repeats itself once again. Good post.

I’m glad our nation’s founders were avid students of history. If they’d found history as boring as Americans today do, they’d have bequeathed to us as crappy a nation as we’re bequeathing to our kids and grandkids. And we would today be cursing them for their selfish laziness and treachery, just as generations to come will curse us for ours.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“We have allowed Liberals to so dumb down our education system that our nation is now at risk.”

Tuesday morning FR WINNER.

They no longer teach US History, except as an elective. They teach social(ist) studies.

[Bigun]

It is for us, fellow citizens, to watch over the sacred legacy of our venerated Fathers, and, when necessary, ‘to provide other guards for the future security’ of ourselves and our posterity. To restore, when impaired, our free institutions to their original strength and purity, and to guard them in future against the open or covert assaults of their enemies. To preserve those institutions pure and uncontaminated, amidst the dangerous and corrupting influences of those who, guided not by the spirit of virtue and patriotism, seek only their own personal interests and personal aggrandizement is a sacred and solemn duty which we own to ourselves, and to those who are destined to walk after us.

Nathan Smith

[Bigun]

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

Samuel Adams

[Bigun]

"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."

Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775

[DDLL]

It’s been their plan to compromise the education system for close to 100 years.

from the Communist Goals:
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

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I keep asking “What organization do patriots have that can implement a plan to take back our schools, entertainment media and news media that can counter the damage the ‘domestic enemy’ has established?”

[Ethrane]

Bump for later

[bamahead]

When designs are form'd to rase the very foundation of a free government, those few who are to erect their grandeur and fortunes upon the general ruin, will employ every art to sooth the devoted people into a state of indolence, inattention and security, which is forever the fore-runner of slavery.



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[bamahead]

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[jwparkerjr]

But his beer today is called Samuel Adams, is it not? Not being a smart ass, I don’t drink beer and could easily be wrong. If so, my apologies to him and to those who drink his product today! Thanks!

[myself6]

Is there anyone left that doubts timeliness of this??!

“If the liberties of America are ever completely ruined, of which in my opinion there is now the utmost danger, it will in all probability be the consequence of a mistaken notion of prudence, which leads men to acquiesce in measures of the most destructive tendency for the sake of present ease. When designs are formed to raise the very foundation of a free government, those few who are to erect their grandeur and fortunes upon the general ruin, will employ every art to sooth the devoted people into a state of indolence, inattention and security, which is forever the fore-runner of slavery — They are alarmed at nothing so much, as attempts to awaken the people to jealousy and watchfulness; and it has been an old game played over and over again, to hold up the men who would rouse their fellow citizens and countrymen to a sense of their real danger, and spirit them to the most zealous activity in the use of all proper means for the preservation of the public liberty, as ‘pretended patriots,’ ‘intemperate politicians,’ rash, hotheaded men, Incendiaries, wretched desperadoes, who, as was said of the best of men, would turn the world upside down, or have done it already.”

Mr. Adams might as well be speaking DIRECTLY to US, this very day. Its not often that men long dead from times so long ago can reach out and slap us in a real way like this, but when the words contain the same “sting” they did when they were originally spoken or penned its wise to pay attention.

[Loud Mime]

Hey, we are just having fun on this thread. I drink “his” beer when I sit at a pub and drive the maidens crazy with my Samuel Adams trivia.

Thankfully, I travel a lot, so I continually have a new audience.