TDIH: Samuel Adams on Courage
"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."
On this day in 1776, Samuel Adams speaks to his fellow citizens. The Declaration of Independence had been approved mere weeks earlier.
"Courage, then, my countrymen; our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."
Congressional delegates would affix their signatures to the engrossed copy of the Declaration just one day later, on August 2.
Funny how these words, spoken in 1776, remain so true today, isn't it?
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What is so very frightening is the number of people who want to give up their freedoms because someone disagrees with them. They prefer freedom of speech be gone. Short sightedness is rampant. Those who cheer for censorship refuse to see they will be censored next
I fear the sanctuary is closing. As Ronald Reagan once said, "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness."