"Unalienable rights are endowed by our Creator upon every human by virtue of being human, and privileges are given by our American government to a specific group of people — Americans. The U.S. Constitution is only five pages. It’s not complicated. That’s because it doesn’t grant rights to the American people, it grants specific, limited powers to the federal government to operate in accordance with the Declaration’s mandate: preserving and protecting the rights we the people already possess. For example, Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to legislate in very specific, limited subject matters. Article II grants specific, limited powers to the federal executive branch, and Article III grants specific, limited powers to the federal judiciary. The Bill of Rights (I prefer to call it the Bill of Protections) enumerates — but importantly does not grant — specific rights that civil governments most often infringe and abridge, and acts as a redundancy safeguard. Just in case Congress isn’t clear on its limited powers listed, the Founders told Congress specifically what it cannot do. " --JENNA ELLIS, February 10, 2017 12:30 PM (

National Review

Government May Protect Our Unalienable Rights — It Doesn’t Grant Them | National Review

In its travel-ban decision, the Ninth Circuit misunderstands the Constitution.

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"It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle." --P. J. O'Rourke, Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut‎ (1996), p. 227. #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #PJORourke #Rights #Dependency

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” [original quote in a speech in Dublin on July 10, 1790, “The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.”] --Jeohn Philpot Curran #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #JeohnPhilpotCurran

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” --Thomas Paine, "The Crisis," no. 4, 11 September 1777 #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #ThomasPaine #TheCrisis

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” --George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903) #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Liberty #Quote #GrowNOSTR #GeorgeBernardShaw #Responsibility

"Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment." --Ronald Reagan, A Time for Choosing Speech, October 27, 1964 #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Liberty #Quote #GrowNOSTR #RonaldReagan #POTUS

"The story we tell nowadays says the poor grasshopper was freezin' to death, and the ant took him in the house and fed him. And then after that, the grasshopper learned his lesson. That's not the real story, folks. If you're gonna tell your kids the story, you need to tell them the way it happened. The grasshopper DIES. He freezes to death. And honestly, the ant probably cuts him up in little pieces and brings him into his den, because ants EAT grasshoppers." --Jack Spirko #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Liberty #Quote #GrowNOSTR #JackSpirko #TSPC #TheSurvivalPodcast

Apparently, Amethyst took away the ability to repost. You can only Boost or Quote... #Amethyst #NOSTRClient #Repost #Bug #Feature #GrowNOSTR

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” --Patrick Henry #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Liberty #Quote #GrowNOSTR #PatrickHenry #FoundingFathers #Revolutionary

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” --Samuel Adams, 1776 speech in Philadelphia #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Liberty #Quote #GrowNOSTR #SamuelAdams #FoundingFathers #Revolutionary

"If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever, having given your identity away for a paltry price. Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a slave, because you yourself and nobody else made it so." --Terry Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation (Sword of Truth, #7) #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Liberty #Quote #GrowNOSTR #TerryGoodkind #SwordOfTruth

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely" full quote in context... ______ Lord John Dalberg-Acton writes to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887: "I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. That is the point at which the negation of Catholicism and the negation of Liberalism meet and keep high festival, and the end learns to justify the means. You would hang a man of no position, like Ravaillac; but if what one hears is true, then Elizabeth asked the gaoler to murder Mary, and William III ordered his Scots minister to extirpate a clan. Here are the greater names coupled with the greater crimes. You would spare these criminals, for some mysterious reason. I would hang them, higher than Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice; still more, still higher, for the sake of historical science." ______ People often cite a portion of this letter and miss the bigger issue addressed here. "... Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it...:" Our Leaders, our "Great Men", need to be held accountable for their actions. If anything, they should be held to a higher standard than us ordinary folk. Big or small, rich or poor, righteous or pagan, we all must answer to the same Laws. We must All be held accountable for our actions, because "...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...". If the "Great Men" of our nation will not allow the Rule of Law to be equal and impartial, applying to themselves as well as others, then we must remove them. "... Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." If we do not consent, then the government is unjust, illegitimate, and a tyranny... #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Liberty #Quote #GrowNOSTR #PowerCorrupts #AbsolutePower #GreatMen

"Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost." --Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Liberty #Quote #GrowNOSTR #RobertAHeinlein

"It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles." --Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Liberty #Quote #GrowNOSTR #LlewellynHRockwellJr.

Name the quote: "A beginning is a very delicate time." #SciFi #Quote

"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die." --(Ned Startk) George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Liberty #Quote #GrowNOSTR #GOT #NedStark #GeorgeRRMartin #GameOfThrones

“How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.” --Adolf Hitler #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Liberty #Quote #GrowNOSTR #AdolfHitler (People can be monsters and yet still sometimes be correct in what they say. )

"So this is how liberty dies, With thunderous applause." --(Padme Amidala in the galactic senate when the republic is replaced with the Empire) George Lucas, Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Liberty #Quote #GrowNOSTR #StarWars #GeorgeLucas #Padme

“The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.” --Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Liberty #Quote #GrowNOSTR #JakubBożydarWiśniewski #Wiśniewski

“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.” --Thomas Sowell #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Liberty #Quote #GrowNOSTR #ThomasSowell