“The common soldiers of the Confederacy, aggregating
something less than a million, were a relatively homogeneous group. The
majority of them were native Southerners, rural, Protestant and unmarried.
Less than one-fourth of them possessed slaves or belonged to slave-owning
families. In age they ranged from the early teens to the seventies, but four
fifths of them were between eighteen and thirty.” – From page 77 of ‘Embattled
Confederates,’ written by Bill Irvin Wiley.
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should
not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all
experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while
evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms
to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their
duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their
future security." -
The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America,
Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776
(To the Founders, 'state' meant independent sovereign nation state,
that was voluntarily entering into the union and could theoretically
un-volunteer later.)
Watch to see what we should be teaching kids
to do to "Liberals" so they'll actually
have a future in a free country:
"No small shot gun, during my residence of seven
years of war in America, was ever kept in the house of a backwoodsman. You
will often see a boy not over ten years of age driving the cattle home, but
not without a rifle on his shoulder; they never stir out on any business, or
on a journey without their rifles. Practice from their infancy, teaches them
all distances…
"I never in my life saw better rifles (or men who
shot better) than those made in America. They are chiefly made in Lancaster,
and two or three neighboring towns in that vicinity in Pennsylvania. The
barrels weigh about six pounds two or three ounces and carry a ball no
larger than thirty-six to the pound; at least I never saw one of a larger
caliber, and I have seen many hundreds and hundreds." - Colonel George
Hanger, captain of a Hessian Jager corps of the American Revolution, as
quoted in Muzzleloader Magazine's 'The
Book of Buckskinning.'
Our civilization has been taken from mindless aggression to mindless
pacifism. The latter is the most dangerous by far. We must put knowledge of our
most basic right, that of self-defense, back into the hands and minds of the
young, or they are doomed to be mindless pacified slaves, and most importantly
'victims' who can be used as pawns by those who seek to maintain their power over us all.
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"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of
freedom." - John Adams, Defense of the Constitutions, 1787
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the
people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when
young, how to use them." - Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) Founding
Father
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone
who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it
but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are
ruined... The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who
is able might have a gun." – Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia
Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778
Folk music records what Vermonters responded to British soldiers
who would impose their will upon them:
"Why come ye hither, Redcoats? Your mind what madness fills? For
there’s danger in our valleys and there’s danger on our hills. Why
hear ye not the singing of the bugle wild and free? Full soon you’ll
hear the ringing of the rifle from the tree! For the rifle, for the
rifle: in our hands shall prove no trifle."
"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not
yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long
habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial
appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry
in defence of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
converts than reason."
- Thomas Paine, the first paragraph of his Pamphlet, “Common
Sense.”
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start with my
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