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Started by floydf, October 06, 2014, 06:23:32 PM

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floydf

October 06, 2014, 06:23:32 PM
This is good:  (and an Op Ed in the LA times that references Jefferson and Adams)

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I sometimes fear I am coming of age in a dying republic. Everywhere I turn the foundational values of America -- open discourse, constitutional integrity, restricted government -- seem to be eroding.

read the whole thing.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-klavan-cicero-john-adams-millennial-activism-20141006-story.html
"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once."

Kozinski, dissent in Silveira v. Lockyer

armaborealis

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October 06, 2014, 08:33:32 PM
A good read.

I wish I had paid more attention in Latin class, but what I did retain is something of a treasure.  Removing study of the classics in their original texts is somewhat reminiscent of New Speak, in a way.  We've culturally lobotomized ourselves by excising their study.  Reading Caesar and Cicero and the others of that era in the Roman Republic was sort of like the Apr 19 story wakeup call for met at least...  It drove home that while history may not repeat itself, it often rhymes...
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Guntuckian

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October 07, 2014, 12:06:02 AM
An excellent read!  Thanks for sharing!

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Fred

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October 07, 2014, 04:14:22 AM

   I'll add my thanks, also!

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     What about it, do-nothings? You heard the man, jump on in...

Unbridled Liberty

#4
October 07, 2014, 08:18:26 AM
Wow!  An excellent piece, and in the LA Times no less.  This is a very good sign.
A free ebook containing Cicero's political works can be found here:

http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/546

I put a link to the Online Library of Liberty in all my AAR's.

UL
For Liberty, each Freeman Strives
As its a Gift of God
And for it willing yield their Lives
And Seal it with their Blood

Thrice happy they who thus resign
Into the peacefull Grave
Much better there, in Death Confin'd
Than a Surviving Slave

This Motto may adorn their Tombs,
(Let tyrants come and view)
"We rather seek these silent Rooms
Than live as Slaves to You"

Lemuel Haynes, 1775

dreamerofdreams

#5
October 07, 2014, 09:10:58 AM
Invite him to a shoot or a Libertyseed.
"On one man's soul it hath broken,
A light that doth not depart;
And his look, or a word he hath spoken,
Wrought flame in another man's heart."

Unbridled Liberty

#6
October 07, 2014, 12:41:13 PM
Quote from: dreamerofdreams on October 07, 2014, 09:10:58 AM
Invite him to a shoot or a Libertyseed.

Thought of that, but he is living in England.

UL
For Liberty, each Freeman Strives
As its a Gift of God
And for it willing yield their Lives
And Seal it with their Blood

Thrice happy they who thus resign
Into the peacefull Grave
Much better there, in Death Confin'd
Than a Surviving Slave

This Motto may adorn their Tombs,
(Let tyrants come and view)
"We rather seek these silent Rooms
Than live as Slaves to You"

Lemuel Haynes, 1775
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