the goal: to rule
among those inclined toward liberty in america remains regular slurpshiping of men who were merely the flawed beginning of the path liberty and nature require we tread, not the polished finish. choice morsels are lifted from their letters and other documents, with the context assumed wrongly to be continual rah rah liberty correctness. see if you can surmise which hero wrote this maternalistic sewage; read slowly, because though most will eventually figure it out, you may be surprised by what precedes and essentially demolishes the supposed money quote oft separated dishonestly from its poisoning context:
[...]The people cannot be all, & always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independent 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it’s natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusetts: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen-yard in order. I hope in God this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted.
how many times have you heard that “tree of liberty must be refreshed” bit without the “The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them” sickness? that was, as you’ve likely recognized, the overly worshiped thomas jefferson, in paris, writing to william smith, 13 nov 1787.
now onto a worse totalitarian pop, from a mercilessly psychotic “hero” with a childish faith in the righteousness of preferred mobs:
Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.
that was the same douchebag i’ve praised before for writing,
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
back atcha, asshole sam adams.
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