Necessity on Taking Up Arms
October 26th, 2007
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One powerful quote that keeps me going is from Thomas Jefferson on The Necessity of Taking Up Arms 1775:
“…we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.” Read more…