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The purpose of this offering is to stimulate an assessment by each reader of the condition of the United States of America and the Free World. I usually strive to present my own thoughts in different ways so as to connect with as many people as possible, but I know that each of us learn in a different way, so a one size fits all approach isn’t particularly effective, which justifies my varied presentations of the same material over time. Today, I have compiled words of men far wiser than I am for your consideration with one exception. I hope you will consider each thought and make your own judgment about how it applies to the world you are living in, whether the U.S. or elsewhere.

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." ~ Samuel Adams

"When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil." ~ Thomas Jefferson

“We're in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for President Obama's administration before this, we have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics." ~ Joe Biden

"But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter." ~ George Washington

"It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail." ~ Samuel Adams

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." ~ George Washington

"This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other." ~ Benjamin Franklin

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die." ~ George Washington

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I recommended rereading the United States Declaration of Independence. In doing so, replace the 27 issues our Founders Fathers had with King George with modern day issues you see as problems with your current government. It will likely give you a whole new perspective on your government’s relationship with you as the governed. Follow that up with Americans rereading the United States Constitution and then judge how the current U.S. government is doing in relation to the authority granted by the Constitution. The same goes for citizens elsewhere and the founding documents for your government. Put your own contemporary spin on what your government is doing compared to what your government is supposed to be doing.

"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools." ~ Plato

"Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented." ~ Mark Twain

“Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.” ~ John F. Kennedy

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