Thursday, April 16, 2009
Does this sound familiar?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn 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"
It should, it is the Declaration of Independence. The whole thing found here.
Constitution
Some Basic Principles
To understand the significance of the Constitution, we must first understand some basic, eternal principles. These principles have their beginning in the premortal councils of heaven.
The Principle of Agency
The first basic principle is agency. The central issue in the premortal council was: Shall the children of God have untrammeled agency to choose the course they should follow, whether good or evil, or shall they be coerced and forced to be obedient? Christ and all who followed him stood for the former proposition--freedom of choice; Satan stood for the latter--coercion and force. The war that began in heaven over this issue is not yet over. The conflict continues on the battlefield of mortality. And one of Lucifer's primary strategies has been to restrict our agency through the power of earthly governments.
Look back in retrospect on almost six thousand years of human history! Freedom's moments have been infrequent and exceptional. We must appreciate that we live in one of history's most exceptional moments--in a nation and a time of unprecedented freedom. Freedom as we know it has been experienced by perhaps less than one percent of the human family.
The Proper Role of Government
The second basic principle concerns the function and proper role of government. These are the principles that, in my opinion, proclaim the proper role of government in the domestic affairs of the nation.
[I] believe that governments were instituted of God for the benefit of man; and that he holds men accountable for their acts in relation to them. . . .
[I] believe that no government can exist in peace, except such laws are framed and held inviolate as will secure to each individual the free exercise of conscience, the right and control of property, and the protection of life. . . .
[I] believe that all men are bound to sustain and uphold the respective governments in which they reside, while protected in their inherent and inalienable rights by the laws of such governments. [D&C 134:12, 5]
In other words, the most important single function of government is to secure the rights and freedoms of individual citizens.
Tea Parties
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Stimulation
So it has finally happened, a huge step (one of many more I am sure) toward becoming a socialist country like everyone else. America used to be different then all the other countries and people wanted to come here. Well now that those people are here they want to make America the same as the country that they have come from, which in turn will make America as the same as the other countries. The founding fathers had America to go to for freedom, but now where are we supposed to go? Why can't we just listen to the experience of the founding fathers and apply the writings of the constitution. D&C 101 tells us the purpose of the constitution.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
What is Love
These made me laugh and wonder how many of them are true
THESE ARE ENTRIES TO A WASHINGTON POST COMPETITION ASKING FOR A TWO-LINE RHYMEWITH THE MOST ROMANTIC FIRST LINE, AND THE LEAST ROMANTIC SECOND LINE:
1. My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife:
Marrying you has screwed up my life.
2. I see your face when I am dreaming.
That's why I always wake up screaming.
3. Kind, intelligent, loving and hot;
This describes everything you are not.
4. Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss,
But I only slept with you 'cause I was pissed.
5. I thought that I could love no other
-- that is until I met your brother.
6. Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.
But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's
empty and so is your head.
7. I want to feel your sweet embrace;
But don't take that paper bag off your face..
8. I love your smile, your face, and your eyes
Damn, I'm good at telling lies!
9. My love, you take my breath away.
What have you stepped in to smell this way?
10. My feelings for you no words can tell,
Except for maybe 'Go to hell.'
11. What inspired this amorous rhyme?
Two parts vodka, one part lime.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Random
Other spending in this stimulus includes: $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts,
Pelosi bills this package as an economic stimulus, but only seven percent of the legislation actually goes towards infrastructure. The rest is a gift to liberal groups for the Democrats' election successes.
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
- Plato
“Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country.”
- Alan Keyes
“The best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
- JFK
“All the constitution guarantees is the pursuit of happiness. You have to catch up with it by yourself.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.”
- Alan Keyes
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”
- Calvin Coolidge
“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
- Thomas Sowell
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”- Winston Churchill
“Life’s Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.”
- Walter E. Williams