I stole this quote from James who got it from the Glenn Beck program.
"It is high time for the people of this country explicitly to declare, whether they will be freemen or slaves? It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns us more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in the event. For wherever tyranny is established, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent. It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore, they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combined to destroy the people's liberties, practice very art to poison their morals. How greatly then does it concern us, at all events, to put a stop to the progress of tyranny."
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interesting how we've gotten so concerned with "security" that we've not realized just how much liberty we've lost.
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