“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.”

–John Adams, Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law, 1765

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… and we have seen five years of his conduct. Are we done yet?

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“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.”

–Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775

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Can you feel how heavy the oppressive weight of the collective ignorance in this country is becoming?

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“Besides, to lay and collect internal taxes in this extensive country must require a great number of congressional ordinances, immediately operation upon the body of the people; these must continually interfere with the state laws and thereby produce disorder and general dissatisfaction till the one system of laws or the other, operating upon the same subjects, shall be abolished.”

–Federal Farmer, Antifederalist Letter, 1787

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I have an idea – institute the Fair Tax and watch revenue climb – once capitalism isn’t fettered, it runs really well …

I am too much of a realist to think that this country could run on donations made out of the goodness of the citizen’s hearts, so tax is a necessary evil. Income tax slams those who can afford it the least, while those who CAN afford to pay the taxes can also afford to have lots of neat little deductions.

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“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.”

–John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756

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Obama(THHO)phone much?

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It’s tough to depend on someone else. It’s even tougher as an independent colonist to turn over your hard-won freedom to a group of people who claim to have your best interest at heart. So, jealous of your freedom, you let them have the power to rule – in a limited manner.

“Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.”

–Thomas Jefferson, The Kentucky Resolutions, 1799

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