Category: Messages from the Chairman

That personal freedom is the natural right of every man; and that property, or an exclusive right to dispose of what he has honestly acquired by his own labour, necessarily arises therefrom, are truths which common sense has placed beyond the reach of contradiction.

And no man, or body of man, can without being guilty of flagrant injustice, claim a right to dispose of the persons or acquisitions of any other man, or body of men, unless it can be proved that such a right has arisen from some compact between the parties in which it has been explicitly and freely granted.

Dr. Joseph Warren, 1775

Dr. Joseph Warren, in 1775, spoke these words on the events of the Boston Massacre that had occurred five years before. He spoke of the invasion of a standing army in times of peace and the death and suffering caused by it. He spoke of the Natural Rights of every colonist and their right to defend themselves and their posterity. He applauded those who sacrificed themselves and their money for a cause that was barely underway yet.

You then, who nobly have espoused your country’s cause, who generously have sacrificed wealth and ease; who had despised the pomp and shew of tinseled greatness; refused the summons to the festive board; been deaf to the alluring calls of luxury and mirth; who have forsaken the downy pillow to keep your vigils by the midnight lamp, for the salvation of your invaded county, that you might break the fowler’s snare, and disappoint the vulture of his prey, you then will reap that harvest of renown which you so justly have deserved.

Your country shall pay her grateful tribute of applause. Even the children of your most inveterate enemies, ashamed to tell from whom they sprang, while they in secret, curse their stupid, cruel parents, shall join the general voice of gratitude to those who broke the fetters which their fathers forged.

Dr. Joseph Warren, 1775

We now have the same issue of tyrannical government trampling our rights. But we also have those who have committed themselves and their fortunes to the fight. We have those who have looked past the struggles ahead to the freedom to be gained for us all.

Having redeemed your country, and secured the blessing to future generations, who, fired by your example, shall emulate your virtues, and learn from you the heavenly art of making millions happy; with heart felt joy, which transports all your own, you cry, the glorious work is done. Then drop the mantle to some young Elisha and take your seats with kindred spirits in your native skies.

Dr. Joseph Warren, 1775

Will you join us?

But, pardon me, my fellow citizens, I know you want not zeal or fortitude.

You will maintain your rights or perish in the generous struggle.

However, difficult the combat, you never will decline it when freedom is the prize.

Dr. Joseph Warren, 1775

Read the full speech of Dr. Joseph Warren Delivered at Boston on 6 March 1775: Patriot Joseph Warren’s 1775 Boston Massacre Oration in full text

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: It is dearness only that gives every thing its value.

Thomas Paine -The American Crisis

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question (and in Matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry) and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own right, to support the parliament in what he calls theirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpation of either.”

Thomas Paine in his writing, Common Sense, calls for everyone in America to consider their rights, abused by their government, and how those abuses could occur. He concludes by encouraging everyone to unite in a common effort towards liberty while there still exists time for contemplative action.

Today we are given repeated contemporary examples of government abuse from all sectors of government and the DEMGOP party. We also, like our founders, have a chance to claim independence from government oppression. And like our founding, the right to independence comes only through committed individuals recognizing what could be and pursuing it fully.

The time to return to limited government is now, before we lose the ability to do so without bloodshed. We now have the power to replace the DEMGOP government that we have long lived under, with our own representatives. We have the opportunity to return to limited government and to self-govern in all areas not given to government’s purpose; that of securing our individual rights.

We need individuals in every State to join with us by starting local Constitution Party organizations to be able to run local candidates under the State party.

We need donations so we can fill our War Chest to be ready for action at every election.

We need individuals and private organizations to do the jobs that government should not be doing; to make government assistance obsolete by taking care of our own communities.  We need Patriots!

You can read Thomas Paine’s pamphlet in its entirety here: