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xBullx -> RE: Rioting In Paris, Rioting In Moscow (2/1/2009 6:40:04 AM)
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I have some interesting quotes made by some of the more ardent protestors in history.
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But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations...This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution. John Adams, letter to H. Niles, February 13, 1818
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Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776
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A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 19, 1787
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A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired. Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
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As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. This is the real disposition of human nature; it is what neither the honorable member nor myself can correct. It is a common misfortunate that awaits our State constitution, as well as all others. Alexander Hamilton, speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, June, 1788
These are a few quotes of men that inspired history like no others. Men that many of us, and not just Americans owe a great debt of gratitude.
What would these men think of our efforts in the modern world? Does anyone remember the commericial where the American Indian sat horseback, upon a hill watch a person litter and wept at site of what has become of his home.
I suspect that the men that inspired the quotes contained within this post would not weep, but rather rebel once more and this time against the appathy that has comsumed their proud accomplishment.
Anyway I wish both the French and the Russian people well and good luck.
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