So timely……
“Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It is an important Question which ought to be decided. It concerns us more than any Thing in this Life. The Salvation of our Souls is interested in the Event: For wherever Tyranny is established, Immorality of every Kind comes in like a Torrent. 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. The Religion and public Liberty of a People are intimately connected; their Interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this Reason, it is always observable, that those who are combined to destroy the People’s Liberties, practice every Art to poison their Morals. How greatly then does it concern us, at all Events, to put a Stop to the Progress of Tyranny. It is advanced already by far too many Strides. We are at this moment upon a precipice. The next step may be fatal to us. Let us then act like wise Men; calmly look around us and consider what is best to be done”.Â
– Samuel Adams, 1772
On July 4th, I watched part of a show on PBS called Alamance. It depicts the pre-revolution history of North Carolina. I googled it and found it on UNC TV and watched the entire show. Much like the quote from Samuel Adams, it fits today almost better than it did in the time frame portrayed. It is well worth the time to watch and reflect. We have come so far as a nation but at the same time the struggles we faced at the beginning still plague us today.
Yes, I see that too. We could rightly say, “There is no new thing under the sun.”
I thank God for our Founding Fathers. They left us wisdom beyond compare. It’s up to us to preserve the Republic they established for us.
Amen!