Posted on 09/10/2003 7:35:33 PM PDT by sdk7x7
OOOPS, right back atcha!
OPPS! I'm not sure I have it right, but it is close. It is truth.
(1) "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." John Philpot Curran, 1790
(2) "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Wendell Phillips, 1852
My own way of saying it is simply, "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
Thank you, badray. I got goose bumps, too, when I got this message in an e-mail from my sister....
Jeff Head was probably wondering why I put that up. It didn't really fit the topic, I suppose. At least, not directly.
But the point for me was, my parent company lost over 200 people in the South Tower on that fateful day. Most of them I didn't even know. But I mourn the loss of each and every one of them to this day -- as I mourn for the other victims, especially the heroic firefighters, police, and Port Authority personnel who were lost.
I work for a subsidiary company, located in the greater Boston area. Two of our most key people were slated for early morning meetings in New York that day. One got a change of plans, and was visiting a client site. The other luckily overslept. Otherwise, chances are, both would have perished. I thank God for sparing these colleagues.
I'm a person of faith. Thus I believe that even the darkest cloud has a silver lining. And subsequent events seem to tell me that there is a silver lining, even to such horrific and tragic events.
Never in my life have I seen the "culture war" in America so sharply polarized between the "elite" Left perspective and "mainstream" conservative people, like myself. Left Liberals seem to be having increasing difficulty in presenting themselves as serving the historical interests of the American people. My husband has told me that, in his humble opinion, the Left is "on the run," that "they are history."
Observing developing events, looking at the substance of the Left's often seemingly treasonous arguments, post-9/11, post-Afghanistan, post-Iraq, I increasingly tend to agree with his assessment. If you listen to what the Left elites are saying these days, they appear to be increasingly desperate about their prospects for hanging on to power....
Patriotic, constitution-loving Americans have an historic opportunity to take back their country, in light of the tragic events of 9/11, and the events that followed from them. We're fighting for our life, and for the life of our country, culture, and history. And for the first time in a long time, I think we've got a chance to prevail
We must seize the opportunity, press our advantage, and expunge the blight that feeds off American society, like a parasite, or a cancer.
If we can do that, then the innocent lost ones of 9/11 -- the tragic victims of unreasoning, implacable, pointless, and finally utterly banal hatred -- will not have died in vain.
If you agree with that assessment, then please do pass the message I posted along to the people you care about....
We must stand up for America and our way of life.
God bless America!
I understood the earlier post and have already shared it with others.
We do stand at a crosroads...and that crossroads is well down the path away from our Constitutional Republic...very close to a frightful and percipitous edge...which we dare not come any closer to.
I believe that God in Heaven does and will honor those who bear His name in their hearts...and live their lives accordingly. There are millions of folks like that yet in America...who understand what is happeniong and have been doing whatever they can to fight it. He will not abandon us in the midst of this struggle, irrespective of what progress the enemies of liberty have made...and it appears now that they are losing some ground.
Even were we to go over the edge...like the Heroes of Flight 93, their fight in the air gave them wings as eagles and they soared on up to Heaven, while the hateful and evil animals whose designs those heroes prevented...went the other way.
Best Fregards.
That was the first thing I did after reading it. It said in a concise and articulate way what I have been trying to say for years.
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