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Thoughts on Freedom
Return to Common Sense and Reason
(A look at currents events and the future with an eye on history. History DOES repeat itself.)
PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.by Thomas Paine, 1776
- COMMON SENSE,
The modern age has become a day of the expert. One must have a degree in law to be qualified to know what the laws should be and how they are enforced. One must be a professional politician to hold office to make the laws and govern the country. Our nation was founded by farmers, merchants and the like. They wrote the Constitution which has endured for over two hundred years. They established a government that has been a model to the world, and has endured when other democracies have haltered.
We do not need lawyers, politicians or any other experts to direct this nation. Nobody has any more right to lead than another. No right to govern comes from birth, education, might or money.
What we do need is to return to a "government of the people. . .by the people. . .for the people." A government of the common man in which those with the public trust demonstrate, not only with words, that all men and women are equal under the law, everyone is equal in the privilege to govern.
Our Declaration of Independence spells out the relationship of government to the governed:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure
these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People
to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Allow me to share with you some of my views of the rights of mankind and government. I hope to show that common sense from the common people, not professionals, gives us the best government. We can find security and freedom at the same time, even in a time of danger from every side.
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