“I sacrificed every private consideration and personal enjoyment to the earnest and pressing solicitations of those who saw and knew the alarming situation of our public concerns, and had no other end in view but to promote the interest of their Country; and conceiving that under those circumstances, and at so critical a moment, an absolute refusal to act, might, on my part, be construed as a total dereliction of my Country, if imputed to no worse motives.”
The level of sacrifice you are willing to make to shows your level of commitment. People’s lives demonstrate what they believe in and the depth of that belief. In other words, talk is cheap.
The Founding Fathers committed “their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor” to the cause of Liberty. These were not idle words. The Founders literally put their lives at risk and spent their own money to achieve limited government and the greatest freedom for themselves and their families.
What are you willing to give for your freedoms?
John Adams to Abigail Adams, 15 April 1776
“But I will not bear the Reproaches of my Children. I will tell them that I studied and laboured to procure a free Constitution of Government for them to solace themselves under, and if they do not prefer this to ample Fortune, to Ease and Elegance, they are not my Children, and I care not what becomes of them.”
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