I dream that music would be put to exalted words by or about beau ideals to regenerate interest in their principles. I conceptualized The Pursuit of Happiness Album. This is the 13th song:
Pay the Freedom-Debt Forward
To the principle of Individual Rights
We owe our joy, wealth, Life
Secure the Declaration by moral might
Honor freedom: pay the debt forward.
Fight! That the Founders live on
Think! That innocents will breathe reason
Extol precious Liberty! By right: cheer
To freedom lovers: Happiness is dear.
Benjamin Franklin, polymathic politician and inventor
Described his social invention in 1784:
"I do not pretend to give such a Sum; I only lend it to you.
When you… meet with another honest Man in similar Distress,
You must pay me by lending this Sum to him;
Enjoining him to discharge the Debt by a like operation,
When he shall be able, and shall meet with another opportunity.
I hope it may thus go thro' many hands,
Before it meets with a Knave that will stop its Progress.
This is a trick of mine
For doing a deal of good with a little money."
Ben Franklin prayed for the spread of Liberty:
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country....
God grant that not only the love of liberty
But a thorough knowledge of the rights of man
May pervade all the nations of the earth,
So that a philosopher may set his foot
Anywhere on its surface and say:
This is my country."
"The liberties of our Country,
The freedom of our civil constitution
Are worth defending at all hazards,”
Said Boston Tea Party organizer Samuel Adams.
“We have receiv'd them as a fair Inheritance
From our worthy Ancestors:
They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger
And expense of treasure and blood;
And transmitted them to us with care and diligence.
It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation…
If we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle;
Or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men….
Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity;
And resolve to maintain the rights bequeath'd to us from the former, …
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it,
And… millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event."
Thomas Jefferson said: “Honor, justice, and humanity,
Forbid us to tamely surrender that freedom
Which we received from our gallant ancestors,
And which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.
We cannot endure the infamy and guilt
Of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness
Which inevitably awaits them
If we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.”
The American Revolutionaries lit the Freedom Torch
Swear to keep Liberty aflame, they sought
Pay the Freedom-debt forward, Dear Americans
Go Liberty! Through many hands and lands!
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"Where liberty dwells, there is my country.... God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country." - Benjamin Franklin
http://mises.org/daily/1144
Great post and thanks :)
Thank you, Thora. My pleasure.
From Williams Todd - "April 1775 - 60 farmers, including slaves, stood up against hundreds of well trained british soldiers. Someone took the first shot against tyranny. Washington gathered rebels, starving, and cold. We won our freedom. We should be able to keep it!"
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/09/pay-freedom-debt-forward.html
MI, AZ, & FF [Freedom Fighters]: Defeat the anti Founders: Obama, Gingrich, and Santorum.
“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us to tamely surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.” - Thomas Jefferson
To the principle of Individual Rights
We owe our joy, wealth, Life
Secure the Declaration by moral might
Honor freedom: pay the debt forward.
Fight! That the Founders live on
Think! That innocents will breathe reason
Extol precious Liberty! By right: cheer
To freedom lovers: Happiness is dear.
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/09/pay-freedom-debt-forward.html
"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." - Thomas Jefferson
A serial deficit eradicator and surplus creator, job creator Mitt Romney is fighting for freedom and for the innocents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_YWX8PQ10s&feature=player_embedded
Between tyrants who crave to rule and thinkers who cannot be ruled, once again, the battle is joined.
The American Revolutionaries battled a mighty empire. In 2012, the moral descendants of these glorious Americans battle SOCIALISTS (adults demanding to be babysat), LOOTERS (distributors of extorted money or money borrowed from communists), THEOCRACY WARRIORS, the anti capitalism [separation of church and economics], POWER-LUSTERS, the anti truth, and those who have renounced using their own minds.
Thank you, Governor Romney for fighting hard for America. Thank you, UNCOMMON freedom fighters. God bless.
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/09/pay-freedom-debt-forward.html
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors." -- Benjamin Franklin
http://www.foundersvbush.com/liberty.html
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