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To: tobyhill
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Send this wise John Adams statement to your Congressmen and Senators, along with the question:

"Do you save the President, or do you save "the People's" liberty for generations to come?"

"Found in: John Adams, The Works of John Adams, vol. 4 (Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution) - NO. III. - paragraph 144

"Obsta principiis (translation: resist the beginnings), nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society."

Surely, among the remaining Democrats, there are two or three people who will stand against slavery!

5 posted on 03/15/2010 6:56:58 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: loveliberty2
Surely, among the remaining Democrats, there are two or three people who will stand against slavery!

I hope you are right but I don't believe you are. The pro life dims voted for a bill they knew would be changed, yet vote for it they did. They were given cover. A mendacious cover and they took it.

11 posted on 03/15/2010 7:34:30 AM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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