"The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free."
- Henry David Thoreau
I think a good way to celebrate patriotic dates like Independence Day is to think about the things you think make your country special, what makes you proud to be a part of that country, what it stands for, and what you love about the people that make it up. Make a list of those things; write them down… Now ask yourself what you have done to ensure that those wonderful things are still around in the future. Then ask yourself what your friends, family, and community have done to protect those values as well.
Then ask yourself if the government has the same mission as the people do. Finally, ask yourself what you and the people who really do stand for the heart of your nation are going to do about it.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
- Thomas Jefferson
A country is special because of the people that make it up and what those people believe is right — how they believe people should live (and let live). Government is nothing but a tool to help the people live with more freedom and liberty, but sadly, government all over the world has become a vessel for an elite few to steal the profits of the hard work of those they have made their subjects. Government should not be the ruler and exploiter of the people — government must be the servant and enabler of the people.
"Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness."
- James Wilson
If government is not the servant of the people of that nation, then it is not the government of that nation, but instead a hostile foreign power that has seized control.
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