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The Original Spirit & Intent of Liberty: To Protect Us That We Be Happy (Chapter 4)

  ā€œThe care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.ā€   Thomas Jefferson, 1809 Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809; Frederick Douglass would be born in 1818, and John Quincy Adams was 42 when Thomas Jefferson said as much in his old age. Our first Secretary of State and third American president, a slaveholder himself, saw that the institution of slavery would be like an anvil annihilating the original spirit of liberty and intent of the generation of thought leaders of 1776. The ability for the new country to find true peace, unalloyed joy, and prosperity in its soul, that its people be happy and at peace, and also that because of that vigilant conscience of what shared values we must hold close to our hearts and minds, our global leadership become a true light of liberty for the world. Is it in the knowledge and understanding of our prioritization of what is most important to us that our values becom...

That Long Forgotten Early Battle

ā€œWe will not recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others..ā€ President Ronald Reagan Quincy, Ma., June 17th, 1775: John Quincy Adams stands upon a mountain beholding the British-American Battle of Bunker Hill, a sweeping conflagration encompassing two hills, the shore line, and water. An awesome sight of what was thought to be the most highly-trained, most well-dressed soldiers in red coats & white against a rag tag army of poor, untrained civilians. The scene took place in Boston Harbor with awesome man-of-war ships cannoning onto land, and ranks of soldiers both ā€˜holding the line’ and charging forward against each other. What is the value of liberty? What moves fellow man to pick up the gun  and defend the liberty of his life and that of his fellow countrymen? John Quincy Adams was nine years old as he watched the scene of gallantry, horror, and spectacle with his mother. His father, a leader in the Cont...