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Notable Quote – Benjamin Franklin

This image was one I saw on a post talking about Obama’s community-organizer inspired frenzy to politicize the tragedy at Umpqua Community College (after all, inflaming and setting people against each other is what community organizers do to achieve ideological purposes; to wit, setting more fires than kumbaya):

Ben Franklin Safety LibertyThe proper quote is:

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety

– Benjamin Franklin – Founding Father, author, printer, Ambassador to France

Freedom just “is” – it needs no justification in and of itself.  However, it does need a strong, vigorous, and vigilant defense as there are many, mostly those that are confused about what Freedom is and from those that are antithetical to the ordinary individual exercising that Right – those latter people we call Democrats, Progressives, Socialists, or Communists.  Think I kid about about that latter group?  Just ignore their words (a lot of the time) and watch what they argue for and pass legislation about.

Ask yourself: do such words, does such legislation, change who gets to make the decisions?  Does such take the power to decide for yourself what is best, right and good away and out of your hands?  Has the “We Know Better Than You” folks (i.e., your “Betters”) decided THEY will, or have already, make those decisions because they believe that you are incapable of making those decisions.

And you keep electing these folks, be they Democrats, Independents, OR Republicans?

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