[Craig Muhonen]

Without memory, there is no time. US History is being ripped apart every day, right before our eyes, especially in our children's schools. "Text Books" are becoming a thing of the past, relegated to "The Skreens". Make a copy of this good writing and make your kids read it, in their own time.
Excerpt:
I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man ought to feel, against the mean principles that are held by the Tories: a noted one, who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door, with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or nine years old, as I ever saw, and after speaking his mind as freely as he thought was prudent, finished with this unfatherly expression, "Well! give me peace in my day." Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;"
and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America.
Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them. A man can distinguish himself between temper and principle, and I am as confident, as I am that God governs the world,
that America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign dominion. Wars, without ceasing, will break out till that period arrives, and the
continent must in the end be conqueror; for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
Don't Be A Tory
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