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Liberty In Practical Application

1 Liberty; it is a word that brings to mind the idea of being free, unbound, movement, and self-government. It is the happy doorway, path, and foundation for creativity, enterprise, and peace. It is also a word that may conjure images of American Revolutionary soldiers and statesmen, like George Washington on his horse before a battalion of soldiers, and John Adams imploring, giving gravity to, admonishing, and fine-tuning before the Continental Congress what should be the just measure of ideas that forms the government. Liberty; a word of the past, encased in glass and history books; a story to behold and brighten the imagination, yet altogether, a word belonging only to the military soldier on a battlefield, for the practice of officially certified people in government, or in retrospect, as a scene invoking it on a painting. A word that cannot be held, and so, a word that enters and leaves the mind. All this as it is, in America we have these unalloyed champions who are the ...

The United Strength Of The Whole, a poem

The united strength of the whole;  the moral and intellectual intelligence of the people; those remaining fountains of empathy; bring these forth; let passion join with solemnity; that love, joy, & peace may abound sharpen the heart unto braveness; give it prowess; make that mind bright; slacken the weights of complacency that lull; unburden the soul from purchasing the short bread of appeasement in you & in me; solidarity in allowing the national unity that is the promise of our Declaration of Independence; that spirit of liberty that moved Abigail Adams to lay the hay for the tired soldier, to melt her silverware into bullets liberty to some, but not to all, such liberty is spotted and sectional; it calls for division and ingrains acrimony the unalloyed spirit of liberty  exacted in that Declaration Of Independence is the wellspring, the foundation of our unity; it must be understood, defended, protected; across all generations, without relen...