Gonna be a busy one with many many changes — hope you are all getting rested up and ready! A friend on one of my political email lists sends these quotes around tonight…
I’m off to Arizona for a few days to see family and friends – back soon!
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“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather a vigilant and tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.” — Samuel Adams
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.” – George Washington
In the beginning, the patriot is a scarce man — brave, hated, and scorned. But when his cause succeeds, the timid join him. For then, it costs nothing to be a patriot. — Mark Twain
“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke 1729-1797
“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.” ~ Edward Everett Hale
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” ~Albert Einstein
“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” -Samuel Adams
“If a nation or individual values anything more than freedom, it will lose it’s freedom; and the irony is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too.” –W. Somerset Maugham
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Jr.
“The battle for freedom is never won, and is never lost. The battle for freedom always continues. It is never too late, and it is never soon enough, to defend freedom.” -John Perna
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