“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell
“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.” ― Oscar Wilde
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ― George Washington
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” [Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]” ― Harry S. Truman
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” 
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” 
“Because if you don’t stand up for the stuff you don’t like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you’ve already lost.” ― Neil Gaiman
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” ― John Milton, 
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” ― Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, and Early Writings
There is a cost to freedom, freedom is not free, it’s an ongoing continual effort to maintain the rights that we have from those who would prefer containment and status quo.. We may not agree with everyone, but we can be assured that everyone has a right to their opinion. In our politically correct world today, if we looked upon the actions of which the first Americans invoked upon the Kingdom of Great Britain today. Our Declaration of Independence would be no less, an act of domestic terrorism by today’s political correct community. At this moment, we celebrate the actions of those domestic terrorist who have given us the rights and freedoms we celebrate this July 4th. Today, Americans continue to fight against government efforts to increase taxes, curb out of control spending and control the very freedoms endowed upon us.
The following are interesting facts about our forefathers and the Fourth of July. In a remarkable coincidence, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the only signers of the Declaration of Independence later to serve as Presidents of the United States, died on the same day: July 4, 1826, which was the 50th anniversary of the Declaration. Although not a signer of the Declaration of Independence, but another Founding Father who became a President, James Monroe, died on July 4, 1831, thus becoming the third President in a row who died on this memorable day. Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President, was born on July 4, 1872, and, so far, is the only President to have been born on Independence Day.
jehunter51
TMC: Thirty Miles of Corruption 
Dear Thirty Miles…,
Well said, Happy 4th of July!
Steve Clute
Thank you for speaking up for us, and letting us know what’s really going on. So easy to be led when you don’t know the truth.
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