From the desk of Thomas Jefferson:
“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.”
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So don’t pass on our sins to our children?
. . . And don’t pass on debt because of our overspending government. True freedom can only be enjoyed when there is no slavery to debt.