Why?

WILLIAM HAZLITT, the English Critic.

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

"The life of liberty is such a Cumbaya event, I find it hard to understand why only half of us are patriots who will throw down over our right to retain it." Marian Beatty

"Those who love liberty want freedom for all (generally) and so it shows that you are not only thinking of just yourself but other people." Sharon Krogman

"Perhaps the fact that we who love liberty want it for all is our Achilles heal...we resort to our power to "impose" it on the world." Marian Beatty

"Our Achilles heel is complacency. Freedom is comfortable and in our comfort our willingness to appreciate it and fight for it is limited to only those who care enough to sacrifice what is necessary to keep it. All the sacrifices these days are on the shoulders of our military. There are a few select patriots but not enough to offset those who prefer government dependency.". James Dixon

WHY?

We sing the moving songs around the campfire

We wave the flag proudly every Forth of July

We bless the bounty before us on Thanksgiving

But we don't all resist the  evil, I wonder why?

Why do some bemoan the success of all the others?

How can some resort to taking at every curve?

The fact that takers rue the self sustaining hand that feeds them

Continues to sicken me and hit my tender nerve

The ones who let the power own them for the right to bread and water

And make the choice to leave their liberty behind them

Will drag the patriots down the road to social justice

And sentence us all to the proverbial chains that bind them