06/03/2024
The Founders USA
1:00 PM (54 minutes ago)
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How did the Founding Fathers respond to the perversion of law? What did they say? What did they do? To answer that question, I have decided to include the full chapter titled 'Insurrection' from my recently released book, 'The Founders' Speech To Save America'.
It is far outside the norm to share an entire chapter from a book that is for sale. But these are not normal times. We need to hear from the Founding Fathers of our nation. Perhaps now, more than ever before. Below are the pages from the chapter, but here are a few highlight quotes:
Quotes From The Insurrection Chapter of
The Founders' Speech To Save America
Copyright 2024
MONTESQUIEU There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. JOHN LOCKE Wherever the power that is put in any hands—for the government of the people and the preservation of their properties—is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to arbitrary and irregular commands, there it presently becomes tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT The law perverted; the law—and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation—the law, I say, not only diverted from its proper direction, but made to pursue one entirely contrary; the law becomes the tool of every kind of avarice instead of being its check. The law becomes guilty of that very iniquity which it was its mission to punish.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The most sacred of the duties of a government is to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.
JOHN DICKINSON Patriots, what steps you now take, without injury to our sacred rights, demands your maturest deliberation. If you comply with the Act by using stamped papers, you fix—you rivet—perpetual chains upon your unhappy country. You unnecessarily, voluntarily establish the detestable precedent which those who have forged your fetters ardently wish for, to varnish the future exercise of this new-claimed authority.
JOHN DICKINSON With an unexampled unanimity, the people compelled the stamp officers throughout the provinces to resign their employments. The virtuous indignation with which they acted was inspired by their generous love of liberty. For the resignation of the officers was judged the most effectual and the most decent method of preventing the ex*****on of a statute that strikes the axe into the root of the tree and lays the hitherto flourishing branches of American freedom, with all its precious fruits, low in the dust.
JOSIAH QUINCY My friends, we must be grossly ignorant of the importance and value of the prize for which we contend. We must be equally ignorant of the power of those who have combined against us. We must be blind to that malice, inveteracy, and insatiable revenge which actuate our enemies, public and private, abroad and in our bosom, to hope that we shall end this controversy without the sharpest conflicts; and to flatter ourselves that popular pleas, popular harangues, popular acclamations, and popular v***r will vanquish our foes. Let us consider the issue. Let us look to the end. Let us weigh and consider those measures which must bring on the most trying and terrible result this country ever saw! JOSIAH QUINCY For I see the clouds which now rise thick and fast upon our horizon, the thunder rolls, and the lightnings play, and to that God who rides on the whirlwind and directs the storm, I commit my country!
ALEXANDER HAMILTON When the first principles of civil society are violated, and the rights of a whole people are invaded, the common forms of municipal law are not to be regarded. Men may then betake themselves to the law of nature; and if they but conform their actions to that standard, all cavils† against them betray either ignorance or dishonesty. For there are some events in society to which human laws can not extend; but when applied to them, lose all their force and efficacy. In short, when human laws contradict or discountenance the means which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper ends of all laws, and so become null and void.
We should learn from the courage and example of the founding generation of our country. They fought back through coordinated boycotts, harassment of tax collectors, shaming of loyalists, an underground communication network, messaging through newspapers and letters, and, as a last resort, through insurrection and arms. They were a people who loved liberty and were prepared to give their all in its defense. We can learn a lot from them. And we should.
Steven Rabb
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