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The American Way
Again
Our
Freedom Is Being Challenged
Wait
until
John Adams reads this!
This time it will not not be Thomas Jefferson who will save our Freedom.
Who then will have the courage?
Not since that day in the 1700's when the first American began
crying out for Freedom, thousands screamed their dissention or
rebellious outcries...As
King George introduced more demands on the Colonies, the more
the Colonies demanded freedom, and Thomas Jefferson went
on feathering the words of the Continental Congress in one
historical masterpiece, the Declaration of Independence.
Somehow it seemed almost ordained that
 John and Abigail Adams would leave
These two essays to remind themselves - and now
All Americans
“It
has been the will of Heaven,” the essay began,”
that we
should be thrown into existence at a period when
the
greatest philosophers and lawgivers of antiquity
would have
wished to live…a period when a coincidence of circumstances
without example has afforded to thirteen colonies at once
an
opportunity of beginning government anew from the foundation
and
building as they choose. How few of the human races
have ever
had an opportunity of choosing a system of government
for
ourselves and their children? How few have ever had anything
more
of choice in government than climate.?”
“There are times in which a genius
would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life,
or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with
difficulties.
Great necessities call out great virtues.
When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the
heart,
then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant,
wake unto life and form the character of the hero and the
statesman."
Who
would that be?
By Roy Livingstone
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All Stories written by Roy Livingstone are the sole property of the
author and his wife. All rights are reserved. No
part of any story may be used or reproduced in any manner
without written permission of Roy Livingstone or his wife,
Dorris Livingstone.
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