The Coffee Locker: Friday, 23 August 2013

"History affords us many instances of the ruin of states by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy ... these measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and those who are oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened."

~ Benjamin Franklin

"The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

~ Thomas Jefferson

Please pray for our Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world, and for their families -- especially those families of fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted their lives in defense of American Liberty.

Veritas Vos Liberabit -- Semper Viglio, Forti, Paratus, et Fidelis