Oh, I’m Going to Create Enemies With This One…
“If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight!” - Patrick Henry, St. John’s Church, Richmond, VA, March 23rd, 1775
There is one thing that the Founding Fathers of the United States knew, and that is that people must fight in order to be free. Force was necessary in order to exert Providence’s will that people should be free. They knew that the French could and would never defeat the British and then simply hand us our freedom on a silver platter and say “Bon chance, mes amis.” The nation had to be galvanized behind the great fight against tyranny and oppression.
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