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Happy Independence Day! May We Never Lose Our Freedoms!
I love our country. And I love our Founding Fathers and Mothers. These people were brilliant, hard working, and of clear vision and understanding based on harsh experience. I'm so grateful for them. I spent my formative years in and around the birthplace of this nation, and have been to the seats of freedom. I'll never forget the spirit of truth, intelligence, and the rightness of our country's founding principles that I felt there. I hope our nation as a whole never forgets them either.
The men and women who carved out our freedoms and founded this nation knew what it would take to keep it. They put it very plainly and simply:
"Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people."
George Washington
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."
Benjamin Franklin
"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women." Abigail Adams
"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." Abigail Adams
"Laws without morals are in vain."
Benjamin Franklin (Motto of the University of Pennsylvania)
"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power."
Benjamin Franklin
We are capable of marvelous things: Acts of bravery, acts of kindness, acts of selflessness, acts of sacrifice, acts of acceptance, acts of love, acts of virtue, acts of honesty, acts of strength, acts of integrity. We have a history of behaving in such a way as to deserve our liberties. If we continue to be this type of people, all of our differences–political and personal–will be sorted out. We can do that. We came from people who did.
God Bless This Land.
This is a syndicated post. Read the original at Life in Bits2012-07-04.
Janiel Miller
I grew up in the Air Force, and moved every few years of my life, which left me with extreme wanderlust and a lot of pen pals. When I moved to Germany at age 10 and my best friend transplanted to Iceland, we started writing comic strips and stories back and forth through the mail, which smoothed out the distance between us and kept our creativity high. My mailbox became my happy place.
When my family moved back to the States and settled in the Rockies four years later, I reunited with my friend and we continued to create together. After that, writing was pretty much locked in. I majored in English at BYU, and continued to write both in my profession and whenever I could at home.
Two and a half decades have passed, and I have managed to keep the same husband. The same four children for almost that long as well--although one or two of them say it has been much longer. When I quit my job after eight years at WordPerfect Corporation and another three as a corporate presenter, people asked me what I would be contributing to the world as a stay-at-home mom. And to them I say, Seriously? Psh!
Four fabulous children and a most excellent husband, obviously. And if that isn't enough, then there's always my writing. Here and on my blogs. And maybe a book or two
I have been creating since I learned to hold a pencil, and trying to make people laugh even longer. I hear the occasional snort when people read my stuff, so maybe it's working out okay. In any case, I'd love to have you join me and see if we can figure life out together. Welcome!
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