"The 250th Birthday of Patrick Henry’s ‘Liberty or Death’ Speech".
The battle to maintain our freedoms is a struggle in perpetuity, each generation facing the same old threats dressed up in new and ever-gaudier costumes, armed with new words and ideas to talk us into some form of slavery.
We are, as noted, in a Third American Revolution. However, unlike those in 1776 and 1865, today’s warriors have not taken up arms. Instead, we’ve used speech and the ballot box to place into the Oval Office a man who believes in liberty. Our fight is to support him. This is one more stage in our centuries-long fight to restore freedom and liberty. Of course, just as Americans discovered when achieving a beachhead at Normandy in WWII to fight back against leftism (Hitler was a socialist), we still have the tough work of advancing liberty across the continent, for liberty’s enemies are fighting back. However, if we heed Patrick Henry’s words, we will have a guide in this battle.
"Give me liberty, or give me death!" sounds unexceptional, what you'd expect every American to endorse.
ReplyDeleteUntil with a sinking feeling you realize that a not inconsiderable number of your countrymen would welcome slavery in exchange for not having responsibility for their own lives.