Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. ~ Thomas Jefferson Over two hundred years ago, at the end of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, a curious woman asked Ben Franklin, “Sir, what have you given us ?" He answered simply “A republic -- if you can keep it.” What did you do for FREEDOM today ? These men knew what they risked. The penalty for treason was death by hanging. And remember, a great British fleet was already at anchor in New York Harbor. They were sober men. There were no dreamy-eyed intellectuals or draft card burners here. They were far from hot-eyed fanatics yammering for an explosion. They simply asked for the status quo. It was change they resisted. It was equality with the mother country they desired. It was taxation with representation they sought. They were all conservatives, yet they rebelled. |
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