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		<title>Impossible Not to Perceive the Finger of that Almighty Hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIBERTY LETTERS, JAMES MADISON Would it be wonderful if, under the pressure of all these difficulties, the convention should have been forced into some deviations from that artificial structure and regular symmetry which an abstract view of the subject might lead an ingenious theorist to bestow on a Constitution planned in his closet or in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Pillar in the Temple of Republicanism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIBERTY LETTERS, DANIEL WEBSTER The first pillar in the temple of Republicanism is correct and stabile morality. All republics are predicated upon this principle; without it they cannot exist. Without virtue, honesty, and tolerance in rulers, and obedience and respect in people Constitutions are waste paper and laws of mockery. When ambition, wild and lawless, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Adams: Right to Life, Liberty, Property Under God</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIBERTY LETTERS, SAMUEL ADAMS, 1772 Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Never was an Assembly of Men &#8230; More Pure in Their Motives&#8221;—Madison</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, James Madison Whatever may be the judgment pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared by them, I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe Must Look to God, Moral Refinement, and a New Political Science to Guide Democratic Impulse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Alexis de Tocqueville &#8230; Nor is this phenomenon at all peculiar to France. Whithersoever we turn our eyes we shall witness the same continual revolution throughout the whole of Christendom. The various occurrences of national existence have everywhere turned to the advantage of democracy; all men have aided it by their exertions: those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reagan on Freedom v. Tyranny, Good v. Evil, God v. Atheism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Minute with Bill Federer A graduate of Eureka College, IL, 1932, he announced for radio stations in Iowa. He married Jane Wyman and had children Maureen and Michael. He was a Captain in the U.S. Army Air Corp during World War II, then became an actor, appearing in over 50 films. He was President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Webster: Other Misfortunes May Be Borne</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIBERTY LETTERS, DANIEL WEBSTER Other misfortunes may be borne, or their effects overcome. If disastrous war should sweep our commerce from the ocean, another generation may renew it; if it exhaust our treasury, future industry may replenish it; if it desolate and lay waste our fields, still, under a new cultivation, they will grow green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Washington: Representation: Local, State, National</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2012/01/31/george-washington-representation-local-state-national/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIBERTY LETTERS, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 1786 That representatives ought to be the mouth of their Constituents, I do not deny, nor do I mean to call in question the right of the latter to instruct them. It is to the embarrassment, into which they may be thrown by these instructions in national matters that my objections [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Adams in 1776—Constituting the Best of Governments</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2012/01/30/john-adams-in-1776-constituting-the-best-of-governments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIBERTY LETTERS, JOHN ADAMS: 1776 If I was equal to the task of forming a plan for the government of a colony, I should be flattered with your request, and very happy to comply with it; because as the divine science of politics is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham Lincoln: My Proudest Plume</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2012/01/27/abraham-lincoln-my-proudest-plume/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Abraham Lincoln: 1839 Many free countries have lost their liberty; and ours may lose hers; but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her. I know that the great volcano at Washington, aroused and directed by the evil spirit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madison to Jefferson on the Need for a More Perfect Union</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2012/01/23/madison-to-jefferson-on-the-need-for-a-more-perfect-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, James Madison On March 18, 1786, James Madison wrote Thomas Jefferson regarding the Constitutional Convention&#8217;s warm-up, a commercial convention in Annapolis, discussing the desperate need for a more unified nation, focusing this letter on the matter of commerce: A quorum of the deputies appointed by the Assembly for a commercial Convention had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2012/01/20/patrick-henry-first-among-patriots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GARY S. SMITH, CENTER FOR VISION &#38; VALUES Among America’s amazing pantheon of founders, Patrick Henry stands out for his stirring speeches and fervent commitment to liberty, virtue, and small government. The Virginia planter, lawyer, and politician strongly denounced Great Britain’s political and economic control of the American colonies and played a leading role in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Inadaquacy in the Constitution</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2012/01/14/no-inadaquacy-in-the-constitution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Called Unto Liberty, 20th Century Sermons, J. Reuben Clark Jr. Having in mind the loudness with which some few cry out against the inadequacy of our system, I may observe that the mere seeming existence of an exigency not apparently covered by our fundamental instrument, or the appearance of an inconvenience of mere administration under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iphitus: Adams&#8217; Defense, No 47</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2012/01/12/iphitus-adams-defense-no-47/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, Letter 47 Ancient Democratical Republics: IPHITUS Dear Sir, ELEIA had been the scene of athletic games, celebrated with great pomp by assemblies of chiefs from various parts of Greece. Iphitus, a grandson of Oxylus, succeeded to the throne of Elis. Active [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexis de Tocqueville: The New Despotism</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2012/01/11/alexis-de-tocqueville-the-new-despotism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Alexis de Tocqueville I see an innumerable multitude of men, alike and equal, constantly circling around in pursuit of the petty and banal pleasures with which they glut their souls. Each of them, withdrawn into himself, is almost unaware of the fate of the rest. Mankind, for him, consists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Argos: Adams ‘Defense’ No. 46</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, Letter 46 Ancient Democratical Republics: ARGOS My dear Sir, IN order to form an adequate idea of the miseries which were brought upon the Greeks by continual and innumerable revolutions of government, it should be considered, that the whole Peloponnesus was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Origin of the Anglo-Americans and Its Future Importance</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2012/01/07/origin-of-the-anglo-americans-and-its-future-importance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831 Volume 1, CHAPTER 2 UTILITY of knowing the origin of nations, in order to understand their social condition and their laws&#8211;America the only country in which the starting-point of a great people has been clearly observable&#8211;In what respects all who emigrated to British America were similar&#8211;In what they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exterior Form of North America: Alexis de Tocqueville</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831 Volume 1, CHAPTER 1 North America is divided into two vast regions, one inclining towards the Pole, the other towards the Equator&#8211;Valley of the Mississippi&#8211;Traces found there of the revolutions of the globe &#8211;Shore of the Atlantic Ocean, on which the English colonies were founded&#8211;Different aspects of North [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corinth: Adams &#8216;Defense&#8217; No. 45</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2012/01/03/corinth-adams-defense-no-45/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, Letter 45 Ancient Democratical Republics: CORINTH My dear Sir, MONARCHY remained in this emporium of Greece longer than in any other of the principal cities; but the noble families here could no better endure the superiority of a monarch, than others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting Down the Mob, Defending Law and Order</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2011/12/29/putting-down-the-mob-defending-law-and-order/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Samuel Adams, 1766 This Town has always been very careful during the late Times of Calamity to preserve as much as possible Good order among its Inhabitants, of which they gave an Early Proof when a dangerous Mob arose and some Outrages were committed by Persons as yet unknown. A good deal of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crete&#8217;s So-Called Democracy: Adams&#8217; Defense, No 44</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, Letter 44 Ancient Democratical Republics: CRETE My dear Sir, THIS celebrated island, with the fantastical honor of giving birth to some of the gods of Greece, had the real merit and glory of communicating to that country many useful improvements. Their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suggestions on Improving the Union by Thomas Jefferson: 1786</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Thomas Jefferson, 16 December 1786 Five months before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to James Madison, offers some advice on improving the struggling Union: &#8220;I find by the public papers that your Commercial Convention failed in point of representation. If it should produce a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union A Main Prop of Our Liberty—George Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, George Washington While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jefferson: The Monroe Doctrine and America&#8217;s Foreign Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson in 1823, being consulted by [President James] Monroe, who had drawn the great statement known as the Monroe Doctrine, the document being submitted by Monroe to Jefferson, replied: &#8220;Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe; our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madison: Limits on Treaty Making Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, James Madison I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I do not think the whole legislative authority have this power. Source: Jonathan Elliot, ed. and comp., The Debates in the Several State [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Achaia and the Volatility of Small Democracies: John Adams&#8217; &#8216;Defense&#8217; No. 43</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, Letter 43 Ancient Democratical Republics: ACHAIA Dear Sir, THE Achæans, whose republic became so famous in later times, inhabited a long but narrow strip of land along the Corinthian gulph, which was destitute of harbors, and; as its shores were rocky, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Evils it Prevents: DeTocqueville on Liberty of the Press</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Alexis de Tocqueville I confess that I do not entertain that firm and complete attachment to the liberty of the press which is wont to be excited by things that are supremely good in their very nature. I approve of it from a consideration more of the evils it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antalcidas Crushes Liberty by Deceit: Adams&#8217; Defense No. 42</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, Letter 42 Ancient Democratical Republics: ANTALCIDAS Dear Sir, IN the year 1774, a certain British officer, then at Boston, was often heard to say, &#8220;I wish I were Parliament: I would not send a ship or troop to this country; but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing Can Deter Us From Asserting Our Rights: Sam Adams</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Samuel Adams, 1766 The House have fully considered your Excellency&#8217;s speech of the third instant, and beg leave to observe, that as on the one hand no consideration shall ever induce us to remit in the least our loyalty and gratitude to the best of Kings, so on the other, no unprovoked asperity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message to Congress in Special Session: Abraham Lincoln</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Abraham Lincoln, July 4, 1861 Having been convened on an extraordinary occasion, as authorized by the Constitution, your attention is not called to any ordinary subject of legislation. At the beginning of the present Presidential term, four months ago, the functions of the Federal Government were found to be generally suspended within the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Wilson on Constitution, State Sovereignty, and Consolidation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, James Wilson Convention of Philadelphia, December 1, 1787 Mr. WILSON. The secret is now disclosed, and it is discovered to be a dread, that the boasted state sovereignties will, under this system, be disrobed of part of their power. Before I go into the examination of this point, let me ask one important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy In America: Author&#8217;s Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831 Volume 1, AUTHOR&#8217;S INTRODUCTION AMONG the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of condition among the people. I readily discovered the prodigious influence that this primary fact exercises on the whole course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laus Deo!—December 18, 1865</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laus Deo! Upon hearing the bells ring on the passage of the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery. ————— IT is done! Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the tidings up and down. How the belfries rock and reel! How the great guns, peal on peal, Fling the joy from town to town! Ring, O [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Adams: On Just Opposition to Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Samuel Adams, 1766 An Opposition to an Act of Parliament merely from a regard to the Constitution cannot surely be looked upon as a Contempt of the Authority of Government since Government itself is built upon and circumscribed by the Constitution, or in other Words to contend for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Athens: Adams &#8220;Defense&#8221; No. 41</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, Letter 41 Ancient Democratical  Republics: ATHENS My dear Sir, CECROPS, an Egyptian, conducted a colony that settled in Athens, and first engaged the wandering shepherds and hunters of Attica to unite in villages of husbandmen. Although the government of Egypt was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Bill of Rights Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Woodlief, The Center for Vision and Values An estimated 4.5 million young people will vote for the first time in the 2012 presidential election. Is this a good or bad thing? The popular answer is that it is indeed good. Many people think that the very act of voting is inherently virtuous. But in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ronald Reagan On Our Duty to Our Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Ronald Reagan Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn&#8217;t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Adams—What Was the Revolution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Correspondence Following his presidency, John Adams—in a letter to Baltimore publisher, Hezikiah Niles—recalls the events surrounding the American Revolution. But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American War? The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Harm Than Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Abraham Lincoln Property is the fruit of labor. Property is desirable, is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lacedaemon, Adams&#8217; &#8220;Defense&#8221; No. 40</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, Letter 40 Ancient Aristocratical Republics: LACEDÆMON My dear Sir, FROM the days of Homer to those of Lycurgus, the governments in Greece were monarchical in name and pretension, but aristocratical in reality. The archons were impatient of regal government, constantly struggling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homer on Ithaca: Adams &#8220;Defense&#8221; No. 39</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, Letter 39 Ancient Monarchical Republics: HOMER on ITHACA Dear Sir, THE court of Ithaca, in the absence of Ulysses, is an admirable example of the intrigues of the archons, and their insatiable ambition. The throne of Ithaca, and the sceptre of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samuel Adams On the Right to Trial By Jury</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Samuel Adams (1764) And it is also certain that this Law admits of our Properties being tried, in Controversies arising from internal Concerns, by Courts of Admiralty, without a Jury. It follows, that at once, it annihilates the most valuable Privileges of our Charter, deprives us of the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regarding Ancient Greek Tyrants, Modern Elites, &amp; Manly Duty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Moral Liberal with Steve Farrell Writing in his classic &#8220;A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States,&#8221; regarding the Greek monarchy at Ithaca, American Founding Father John Adams observes: That the Grecian kings, claiming from Jupiter and supported by their auguries and bards, thought themselves absolute, and often punished the crimes of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which is the Most Warlike and Most Revolutionary Class in Democratic Armies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831 Vol. 2, Sect. 3, Ch. 23 IT is of the essence of a democratic army to be very numerous in proportion to the people to which it belongs, as I shall hereafter show. On the other hand, men living in democratic times seldom choose a military life. Democratic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Franklin: Imitators v. Counterfeiters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Benjamin Franklin There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him. Source: Benjamin Franklin: Sayings of Poor Richard from Poor Richard&#8217;s Almanack. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1960. Liberty Letters are researched, compiled, and edited (with occasional commentary, explanatory notes, spelling modernizations and paragraph reformatting for easier reading) by Steve Farrell. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Democratic Nations Naturally Desire Peace, and Democratic Armies, War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy In America, Alexis deTocqueville, 1831 Vol. 2, Sect. 3, Ch. 22 The same interests, the same fears, the same passions that deter democratic nations from revolutions deter them also from war; the spirit of military glory and the spirit of revolution are weakened at the same time and by the same causes. The ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samuel Adams: The Basis of Public Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Samuel Adams, 1764 Being Members of the Legislative Body, you will have a special Regard to the Morals of this People, which are the Basis of public Happiness; and endeavor to have such Laws made if any are still wanting as shall be best adapted to secure them. Source: Samuel Adams, “Instructions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honest Abe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Abraham Lincoln (age 27) Letter to Colonel Robert Allen. June 21, 1836 Dear Colonel, I am told that during my absence last week you passed through this place, and stated publicly that you were in possession of a fact or facts which, if known to the public, would entirely destroy the prospects of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Adams: Preserving Morals, Property &amp; Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Samuel Adams As the Preservation of Morals as well as Property and Right, so much depends upon the impartial Distribution of Justice, agreeable to good and wholesome Law: and as the Judges of the Land do depend upon the free Grants of the General Assembly for Support; It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homer on Phaecia: Adams &#8220;Defense&#8221; No. 38</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, Letter 38 Ancient Monarchical Republics: HOMER on PHÆACIA Dear Sir, IN the kingdom, or rather aristocracy, of Phæacia, as represented in the Odyssey, we have a picture at full length of those forms of government which at that time prevailed in [...]]]></description>
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