Don'tTreadOnMe

Natural law. Everything you really need to know, you knew when you were born.

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Where liberty dwells, there is my country. - Benjamin Franklin

Transparency in government, accountability, ethics, unity, inclusion, left politics, though all views are sound if conceived in the preceding terms. Spread the word.

Cicero's orations against Catiline, Rousseau: On the Social Contract, Paine: Common Sense, de Tocqueville: Democracy in America, Zinn: A People's History of the United States, Marx: Communist Manifesto, Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent, Foucault: Discipline and Punish, Spengler: Decline of the West, and who could forget - the friggin' Constitution! (best governmental charter EVER, and certainly worth a read)

Gandhi

The anthem of any free land.

I've had enough of this administration's bullshit. The time has come to draw a line in the sand. A majority of the citizenry may acclaim an empty vessel their leader, but this means nothing - for a mistake is a mistake, whether it be made by one man or a million or a hundred million. I do not endorse the view that this country is evil - it is great, and therein lies the tragedy of our present situation. Testimonials and new friend requests welcome: e-mail is aerik_the_red@yahoo.com

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men. - Hamilton

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. - Jefferson

I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love. - Washington

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. - Washington

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Franklin

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. - Jefferson

Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country. - Washington

I hope, some day or another, we shall become a storehouse and granary for the world. - Washington

No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass. - Washington

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It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, and his country... but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn. - Washington

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. - Hamilton

Although a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible. - Jefferson

It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many... who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they felt for his political views. - Jefferson