If you've followed my blog from its inception, or if you've read far enough back through older posts, then you know that while the vast majority of my entries are meant to be humorous and entertaining I occasionally like to shift gears and post a poem, a serious reflection, or a topic I see as important and relevant to the times or my present line of thought, focus, and study. This is one of those posts. I wanted to share a quote by Daniel Webster concerning standing up for and protecting the Constitution of the United States and the principles that it stands for as established by our Founding Fathers.
"...I am committed against every thing which, in my judgment, may weaken, endanger, or destroy [the Constitution]...and especially against all extension of Executive power; and I am committed against any attempt to rule the free people of this country by the power and the patronage of the Government itself..."
-Daniel Webster
Are we just as passionate today about protecting and preserving the principles of the Constitution as our founding fathers and the early patriots were or do we sit back and trust that the Constitution and its principles will preserve themselves or be preserved by those who are in charge? It's a dangerous game to let men of power run about unhindered and unchecked by the people they are said to represent; just ask Nazi Germany.
Let us stay awake, passionate, and vigilant lest we loose these freedoms and this great nation bestowed upon us by the Hand of Providence to the power hungry and corrupt who in turn will gladly offer it as one of ten branches in a one world government that their power might be even more all-encompassing.
Our protection against this is the Constitution. It is as powerful, or as powerless, as we the people allow it to be. God forgive us and have mercy on us should we not steward the gift we've been given.
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