That a government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish.
We have come very close to seeing that happen. What these statists never realized is that WE THE PEOPLE would rise up against them.....and call ourselves The Tea Party.
There is a lot of talk recently about "leaders" of the tea party.
Another deadly mistake they make is NOT realizing we DO have leaders..... EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US IS A LEADER OF THE TEA PARTY.
I will see all of you once again in DC on April 15.....God Bless America!!
Amen!
A broken clock is right twice a day. Lincoln was a tyrant and would probably be considered a Marxist by today’s standards. Heck he corresponded with Marx. Today’s tea party represents small government, not expanding government like under Lincoln. It is about more personal liberty, not stepping on personal liberty like Lincoln.
Other public reaction to the speech was divided along partisan lines. The next day the Democratic-leaning Chicago Times observed, "The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat and dishwatery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the President of the United States."
It has always been of interest to me that Lee’s great confederate army retreated from Gettysburg on July 4th, 1863 and Vicksburg also fell that day to cement the USA as one undivided nation...also, both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, arguably at the roots of our two political parties, both died on July 4th; exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Providence?
Other than causing the unnecessary deaths of 600,000 Americans in a needless war, thereby destroying two republics in the process, the USA and the CSA, I have no problem with him.
You left off the notes Lincoln crossed out before the speech:
“....and the bartender says ‘That’s not a duck!’ (Wait for laughter)”
(Wish I could find that Far Side cartoon)
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Patrick Henry’s Give me Liberty or Give me Death does it for me.