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• #The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty free#

We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. Perhaps Ronald Reagan, in his first inaugural address as governor of California, said it best: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. Yet, there are those who now embrace big government, Socialism, or worse.

Three powerful words that have stood as the guiding light for nearly 250 years. He said, in the hands of the American people, not in the hands of politicians. He and our other Founders knew what was at stake. “The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” We must keep in mind what George Washington, our first president, said. Yet, government today limits or takes away our unalienable rights and then either licenses them back to us or we never see them again. Note those words, ".support, protection, and defence of those very rights." Government now controls virtually every aspect of our lives.įounder of the Sons of Liberty Samuel Adams stated, "The grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property." While Patrick Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death Henry, pointed out, quite accurately, "Where and when did freedom exist when the power of the sword and purse were given up from the people?" Constitution and fourth president, declared, “The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”

How about any and all laws limiting an American's right to bear arms, or, possibly worse, Red Flag Laws?

#The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty free#

Witness the existence of free speech zones, places where American citizens are allowed to speak their mind, yet our First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech, without reservation of location.īenjamin Franklin, deemed The First American due to his early role in the fight for independence, proclaimed, "Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins." Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of our Declaration of Independence and third president of these United States, stated, “The policy of American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.”ĭespite this, over the decades that have come and gone, We the People have allowed government to expand to a size and scope our Founders would not approve, would not believe. They envisioned a nation with limited government, where people would be free from draconian rule, to live their lives without government interference. They believed, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Our Founders fought against tyranny in a war that spanned eight years, ultimately freeing themselves, and their new country, from the oppressive rule they experienced under King George III of England.