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Most Glorious Freedom Loving Nation in the World is Dying, Can We Save Her?
Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. —John Adams
Timid men…prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty. —Thomas Jefferson
The people … are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. —Thomas Jefferson
But a constitution of government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. —John Adams
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right…and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied king of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers. —John Adams
The above quotes are from two of our early presidents. They ran against each other in 1800…In what is sometimes referred to as the “Revolution of 1800,” Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated one-term incumbent President John Adams of the Federalist Party. Jefferson served two terms.
