Comments on: Freedom http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/12/02/freedom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=freedom Black Bear Blog - The Politics of Hunting, Fishing and the Outdoors. Protecting our American Heritage. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ar http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/12/02/freedom/#comment-11543 ar Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:06:35 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/?p=4397#comment-11543 "Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark"... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?" --John Adams, the Novanglus, 1775 “Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the “latent spark”… If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?”

–John Adams, the Novanglus, 1775

]]> By: ar http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2008/12/02/freedom/#comment-11542 ar Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:57:19 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/?p=4397#comment-11542 Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." --Thomas Jefferson Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.” –Thomas Jefferson

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