“The natural progress for things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.”
--- Thomas Jefferson
"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
--- Thomas Jefferson
"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
With these words, written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the colonies over 226 years ago, independence from the oppressive rule of the British Crown was declared.
Read Lee's entire article A New American Revolution
Lee Schaeffer, our official Political Reform Expert
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