James Otis Jr. warned that nothing destroys liberty “more than a prevailing opinion that it is better to tamely submit than nobly assert and vindicate our privileges.”
The post Submission Guarantees Tyranny first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.TAC memberships help us produce more educational tools like this. Members can download this video and read the full transcript at this link. “Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar…
Editor’s note: This article is the final installment (for now) in a series “inspired” by a July 4 piece in the Lincoln Journal Star (title noted below). Click here for a full list of titles in the series. Whatever the Founders’ reasons, slavery’s omission from the political agenda remains a shameful spot on our nation’s founding, [...]