QUOTE
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit and INTELLIGENCE of the citizens.
Joseph Story
1779-1845
Apathy's Door
Where has all the virtue gone
Since our Founders had their say?
Has it really, actually been that long
When Patriots owned the day?
Where is all the spirit now
To hold our country above all else?
Are we locked up in the lack of wow
With interest only in ourselves?
Where has all our knowledge been
Since the days they fought and prayed?
For the liberty that had come to them
In the Republic they had made?
Have we failed now our children
And sold their futures short?
Are we discouraged now in building
And have decided to abort?
Where is our Republic now?
Have we lost it forever more?
Is our spirit and our know how
Been checked at apathy's door?
Marian
May 28, 2011
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we should never choose, and that path is the path of surrender, or submission. John F. Kennedy
Ask Not
Ask not that we shall surrender
The freedom and spirit in our souls
T'was a gift from early countrymen
And the liberty that they chose
Ask not that we submit to forces
That polarize our ideals
Just because they subsidize our lives
With welfare and free meals
Ask not to become menial people
Whose hopes and dreams are dashed
Just because there were dishonest men
Who made our economy crash
Ask not that we trust our unions
Who grew rich from our sweating brow
To use their cash to influence our lives
Through the politicians they own now
Ask not that those who made us strong
Sacrifice their own stability
To let those who seek a hand out
Won't work to their ability
Ask not that government props us up
Please leave that to our faith
For we are a charitable people
That is what made this country great
Ask not, our elected leaders
How to entagle and regulate
Because now it's We The People
Who have cause to speculate
No longer will the people
Look away as laws are made
Because our elected people
Have failed to make the grade
Marian
December 22, 2010
THE PEOPLE are the masters of both congress and the courts, not to OVERTHROW the constitution, but to overthrow the MEN WHO PERVERT IT
Abe Lincoln
Congress
Come ye people to see
This is congress, it works for me
It is for your bidding it exists
If they seek more power we must resist
When you see laws mangled to advance a cause
It is then The People must take pause
They must keep the congress always in line
It is up to The People, the laws we define
Come ye people and understand
Congress is there at our command
You are the keepers of this institution
To uphold our sacred Constitution
Marian
December 2, 2010
QUOTE
YIPPIES, HIPPIES, YAHOOS, BLACK PANTHERS, LIONS AND TIGERS ALIKE...I WOULD SWAP THE WHOLE DAMN ZOO FOR THE KIND OF YOUNG AMERICANS I SAW IN VIETNAM.
~Spiro Agnew
1918-1996
Dressed For War
Agree
Disagree
But you have to support them
Open your hearts
Don't desert them
Love
Hate
Conscientiously Object
They are the targets sticking out their necks
Support the wars
Loathe them
They'd rather be home
Than in bunkers alone
Camouflage
Dress blues
Green fatigues
Or sand tan
They are there for the women
Children and man
Understand them
Don't abandon them
They could have been you
Would you have gone?
Coming home are too few.
Marian
March 2, 2011
QUOTE
REMEMBER UPON THE CONDUCT OF EACH DEPENDS THE FATE OF ALL.
Alexander the Great
356 BC-323 BC
Earning Our Republic
It comes right along with freedom
Our responsibility
In fact the ultimate fate we face
Is our accountability
Liberty doesn't come easy
It's for all of us to bear
It takes us all to pull together
A majority to care
When outside influence infiltrates
We all must answer the call
It's the threat of losing our freedom
That pertains to one and all
We'll live and pursue our happiness
But when it comes to one demand
When it comes down to our liberty
We all must take a stand
In a free society
We can take, but we must give
Take heart that with our founders' gift
We must earn the life we live
Marian
January 27, 2011
QUOTE
At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm.The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
Edwin Markham
AMERICAN POET ( I seem to love the Poets and the Greeks Philosophers!)
1852-1940 (born in Oregon City, Oregon) Lived most of his life in Stanton Island, NY.
Finding the Ties That Bind
Let not the turmoil be the root of your power
Like a cyclone tearing against the sky
Let not wrath design your finest hour
Don't let rage be what drives your high
Be the calm that attracts a world of hope
So the people around you live free
Of senseless acts of violence
That derails our harmony
Let patience and love be a stepping stone
Put your guns and knives away
React in peace and dignified discussion
To hold the civil wars at bay
Let God be the center of your calm
And the pillar to brace your soul
Be the lamb that eats from upon his palm
For he's the spirit to help love grow
Find common causes in which to build
Set the differences aside for awhile
Then you'll come to know what other hearts yield
And you'll hand in hand walk that peaceful mile
Marian
February 1, 2011
"We have a natural right to make use of our pens, of our tongue, at our peril, risk, and hazard."
Voltaire
Getting Back To Basics
When speaking of inalienable rights
Under the God of our own choosing
It never meant we bow to governments
One by one, our rights we're loosing
We were meant to be a republic
A nation of equal man
Laws were to protects our rights to be
All that we hope and can
Our government was never meant to bind,
Stifle, or restrain us
It was always meant to be our crutch
And never to refrain us
We can write the words of freedom
And shout liberty for ever more
Without fear of retribution
Or of lawmen at our door
As long as we are honorable
And can follow simple laws
Meant only to protect us
From others of evil cause
Throw out the restrictive amendments
Restore our national trust
Let regulations that bind us
Be ashes in the dust
Re-read the words of our foundation
Don't re-write our Constitution
For if your hearts are for freedom pure
Our hope's our contribution
Marian
December 22, 2010
QUOTE
I am the people, the mob, the crowd, the mass. Do you know that all great work of the world is done through me?
Carl Sandburg
1878-1967
American Writer, Editor & Poet
It's Me
I am The People of this great land
I love my liberty, please understand
We are free to gather near and far
This country is who The People are
I am the mob that comes to gather
To have my say, work up a lather
When the mobs are present with their signs
This mob is me, for yours and mine
The greatness done throughout this land
Is done through me, we're hand in hand
We were built from scratch fueled by patriot blood
We're all flowers grown, an American bud
I am the crowd on election day
Free to vote the American way
We're all we know and who we'll be
I am the American and you are me.
Marian
March 7, 2011
I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments of the Declaration of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln
February 22,1861 @ Independence Hall.
Look To Abe
He revered the Declaration of Independence
As his political Bible
And all that he stood for
Was his country and its survival
He stood tall above his people
But it was on level ground
Freedom for all was his one true hope
In his Presidency it was found
He was a man who should be looked to
As our country begins to crumble
As The People blame each other
In ideology they rumble
Please look to Abe for guidence
He respected his fellow man
The Declaration of Independence
Held tightly in his hand
Marian
May 17, 2011
Abe Lincoln...a rare quote...
"Lets have faith that right makes might; and that faith lets us, to the end, dare do our duty as we understand it."
Our Duty
A husband has a duty
To be faithful to his wife
A mother's duty to her children
She has for all her life
A soldier does his duty
To protect us how he can
It is the duty of everyone
To have faith in fellow man
A country has a duty
To represent us to what end
They must uphold our laws
And be there to defend
If we understand our duty
Then we'll realize our cause
And hope that our morality
Is free from major flaws
Marian
December 17, 2010
QUOTE
The essential characteristics of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West from the age of the Greek polis down to the present day resistance to socialism is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachment of the office holder.
Ludwig Von Mises
1881-1973
Our Paper
Back in the days of Jefferson
And all the Fathers who wrote
Our beloved Constitution
And stood for freedom's vote
They stood to set the west apart
From a kingdom's stifling rule
And where best do our founders start
But to write this crowning jewel
It has thrived in our best interest
Putting liberty to the test
Stood clearly for its inference
There has been no need to guess
There are those who try to rewrite it
For more power they explore
But Patriots stand to decry it
It's ours for evermore
Marian
January 12, 2011
QUOTE
The essential characteristics of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West from the age of the Greek polis down to the present day resistance to socialism is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachment of the office holder.
Ludwig Von Mises
1881-1973
Our Paper
Back in the days of Jefferson
And all the Fathers who wrote
Our beloved Constitution
And stood for freedom's vote
They stood to set the west apart
From a kingdom's stifling rule
And where best do our founders start
But to write this crowning jewel
It has thrived in our best interest
Putting liberty to the test
Stood clearly for its inference
There has been no need to guess
There are those who try to rewrite it
For more power they explore
But Patriots stand to decry it
It's ours for evermore
Marian
January 12, 2011
from Daniel Webster...
"The contest for the ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power"
Storytime
Once upon a time there was
Freedom and that is because
Of what the faithful citizen does
In respect to not annoy the fuzz
Laws were to protect us from
Being the vicims of just anyone
We are allowed to own a gun
For protection or just target fun
Crooks that failed to step in line
Got jail or perhaps a fine
We're allowed to keep what's yours and mine
And post a private property sign
Then comes the progressives with their laws
To use the taxes as their claws
They succeeded and that was because
We failed to act like a patriot does
Little Red Riding hood looked away
And took the shortcut on that day
The big bad wolf then had his say
And feasted on a grand fillet
The legislators have set retrictions
On folks who never gave them friction
They subsize the ones with true addictions
Who working is their last intention
Then came the patriots on their horses
With a steadfast aim to set new courses
Get our reps from more honorable sources
No longer shall we have remorses
Amid the free and spirited laughter
The Americans lived for ever after
Marian
December 22, 2010
QUOTE
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists---to protect them and to promote their common welfare, all else is lost.
Barack Obama
Tell Me Your Plans
How does this president interpret the role
His Government was created to play?
It was not in place to save every soul
Micromanage their every waking day
It exists to protect us but not to neglect us
The People who contribute their part
It is not to enable those not willing to work
Who have taken entitlements to an art
It was meant to represent us, our will to proceed
Not to regulate our every waking hour
It was not to endebt us, and totally bind us
To the maximum of their taxable power
Dear Mr. Obama, I ask you this question
In all of my sincerity
Is it your idea that your hope for transformation
Is to collapse our capitalists society?
Do you want us encumbered, liberties now numbered
Like birds in a nest waiting to be fed?
Is you social justice that you want thrust upon us
Based on entitlements from birth til we're dead?
Do you see The Constituion as an ancient paper
Not worth the ink it was written?
Or will you as President continue to honor it
Along with the reps on The Hill that are sittin'?
Do you see us beholding to Chinese intervention
As our debt will continue to climb?
Do you see this country as yours and forgetting
It is also supposed to be mine?
Marian
May 19, 2011
QUOTE
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be unsupportable.
Samuel Johnson
The Comfort of Our Success
I have known the comfort of freedom
I have treasured it as well
Without this comfort, in poverty
I may have descended to hell
I have known the feeling of sickness
And liberty has cured my ills
For the freedom to choose my doctors
Is a comfort to me still
I have witnessed those in captivity
The innocents that should never be
But have comfort that in our society
We have possessed the right to be free
If misery shall befall our people
Our unalienable rights would prevail
We'll recover with the comfort in knowing
Our Republic is not one to fail
Marian
May 28, 2011
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of their life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
We Shall Survive
In the wake of terror we shuddered
Became victims to their murderous desires
But then their most hideous step had been taken
It renewed our patriotic fires
They shall never again cause our silence
And try to define our lives as their own
We have risen as a united nation
Their agendas like our buildings are blown
All we Americans have most in common
Is our will to live and thrive
At the cost of terrorists lives we'll continue
As a republic to survive
Marian
May 15, 2011
The next quote is also from Abe:
QUOTE
I have understood well that the duty of SELF PRESERVATION rests SOLELY with the AMERICAN PEOPLE.
January 19, 1863, from a letter to Working men of England.
What It Will Take
It will not be the politicians
It will not be the money
It will never be none other
Than The People for this country to survive
We will flounder as a country
If we remain at odds
It will take all The People
For this country to thrive
Marian
May 17, 2011
"It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each others pockets and somehow get rich."
Paul Harvey
Where?
Do you understand the class wars?
Are you privy to the cause?
I blame the politicians.
Who we trust to make our laws.
Are they in DC to serve us
Or line their pockets with gold?
Why do we sit so timidly
And refuse to question bold
Who has given others permission
To intrude into our savings
Whenever they have overspent
Or have come to have new cravings?
Who started this game of round table
Where you need no winning hand
To take the money from the pot
Just at someones rude demand
Where has the pride of accomplishment gone?
Why don't the people learn
That what a man's entitled to
Is the dollars he will earn?
Where has our view of Government gone
From when they would uphold the Constitution
They've grown to have more power
Than before the Revolution
Where will We The People stand
Over taxed and under control?
Where have all the Patriots gone
Who made this country whole?
Marian
May 2, 2011
QUOTE
The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
Mark Twain
Whose Who
Life is a party with costumes galore
Yesterday was tomorrow, once before
Confusion and indecison are the thought of the day
Everyone is insisting they will have their way
Breads are buttered on that side or this
Each way you turn it, it's about your own bliss
Some will like coffee, others like tea
Some will exist just pretending to be
There are good guys and bad guys, we all know it's true
Who is to say if it's that one or you?
Guns can be evil in the hands of the bad
There are people in asylums who aren't really mad
Patriots and traitors are living next door
In each row of houses there is always one more
Who fits the profile, you really can't see
Until that thief has taken what made us all free
Marian
March 30, 2011
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