Written and compiled by Bonnie Colleen McCool - Updated as information is released

Move America out of the dark ages of war by returning to our roots, self-government free of tyranny and oppression. We have freedom of religion, all faiths are welcome here, but we have separation of church and state to keep the government out of moral issues. That is how our founders set things up based on Jesus' teachings.

I studied commercial art at Sam Houston State Teacher's College. In honors history we studied, "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution" by Charles A. Beard. They were good Christian men led by the holy spirit but money the root of all evil was part of it. They wanted to create the land of abundance. They knew ethics would have to rule for it to work. The Spirit of '76 is the Holy Spirit and our true north.

They warned us to be diligent in protecting our freedom and not let things get out of our control. Ooooops!

"Abraham Lincoln had it right. Our task should not be to invoke religion and the name of God by claiming God's blessing and endorsement for all our national polices and practices -- saying, in effect, that God is on our side. Rather, Lincoln said, we should pray and worry earnestly whether we are on God's side."- Jim Wallis author of GOD'S POLITICS.

In this frame of mind, with modern unbiased, science based statistical reporting our worries are over. We can see where our laws are causing more harm than good and change accordingly. Empirical statistical evidence strongly shows that more democracy leads to less internal violence and democide. Democide is a term coined by political scientist R. J. Rummel in his book, DEATH by GOVERNMENT to describe "the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder."

Changing whose in charge will not effect much. The real cause of this huge quagmire of failed policy is the beast, big government, that money hungry beast, Uncle Sam! Ma Freedom tells it like it is! The beauty of it is when we focus on downsizing our government we regain our roots of self-government and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and future generations. The World Trade Organization and the United Nations are more big government, money hungry beasts that we must tame or cut down to size.

Most of what you read in the rest of this article has been erased from our textbooks. Revisionists have rewritten history to remove the truth about our country's Christian roots.

Separation of church and state allows other faiths and keeps the government out of moral issues. It does not mean erase any reference to the Creator and the Bible from our money and any state function, building, etc. Knowing our Christian roots is key to remaining true to the "Spirit" of our constitution and to our founding father's vision of self-government leading to abundance - free of tyranny and oppression. Have you ever wondered What Would the Founders Do Today?

Did you know that 52 of the 55 signers of "The Declaration of Independence" were orthodox, deeply committed, Christians? The other three all believed in the Bible as the divine truth, the God of scripture, and His personal intervention. It is the same Congress that formed the American Bible Society, immediately after creating the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress voted to purchase and import 20,000 copies of Scripture for the people of this nation.

Patrick Henry in 1776 wrote this: "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here."

Consider these words that Thomas Jefferson wrote in the front of his well-worn Bible: "I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our creator." He was also the chairman of the American Bible Society, which he considered his highest and most important role. He believed, "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."

On July 4, 1821, President John Quincy Adams said, "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: "It connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."

Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President of the United States reaffirmed this truth when he wrote, "The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country."

In 1782, the United States Congress voted this resolution: "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools."

William Holmes McGuffey is the author of the McGuffey Reader, which was used for over 100 years in our public schools with over 125 million copies sold until it was stopped in 1963. President Lincoln called him the "Schoolmaster of the Nation." Listen to these word of Mr. McGuffey: "The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free Institutions. From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible, I make no apology."

Of the first 108 universities founded in America, 106 were distinctly Christian, including the first, Harvard University, chartered in 1636.

In the original Harvard Student Handbook, rule number 1 was that students seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek so that they could study the Scriptures: "Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies, is, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, John 17:3; and therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation for our children to follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."

James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United States, said this: "We have staked the whole future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."

Please spread the word! Maybe it will be a drop of cement to help secure a foundation that is crumbling daily in a losing war that so much of the country doesn't even know is raging on, in, and around them...

Please do your bit and share this with as many as possible and make the ill-informed aware of what they once had. Or read on, you'll get a clear picture of how visionary these rebels with just cause really were.

James Madison "All men having power ought to be mistrusted. Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries."

Patrick Henry "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power.. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."

Thomas Jefferson "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead... Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. Every generation needs a new revolution. Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. I have sworn upon the alter of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Nations of eternal war [expend] all their energies... in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who
live under tyranny"

Ben Franklin "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind. Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. Genius without education is like silver in the mine. He that lives upon hope will die fasting. He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. To err is human; to repent, divine; to persist, devilish. Where liberty is, there is my country. Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."

George Washington, "As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

John Quincy Adams, "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."

Samuel Adams, "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."

As time allows, I will add more quotes from years passed made by famous lovers of liberty.

Abraham Lincoln, "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our
freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to
overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise
their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."

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