SENATE'S GUN CONTROL READING * LIVE

[XC700116]

In light of the goings on at the statehouse today just remember there is always a way to remedy the situation. I have 2 quotes I would like to submit from 2 very different sources that have the same thoughts and intention.

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."
-Abraham Lincoln -Monday, March 4, 1861
His Inaugural Address

"All the world's great civilizations have followed the same path. From bondage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy back to bondage. If we are to be the exception to history, then we must break the cycle, for those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Molly Johnson - From the movie swing vote

I always laugh when I hear people quote Lincoln saying such things, I mean really, he's the one who was the sole biggest contributor to starting the civil war and it had NOTHING to do with Liberty, it had everything to do with stopping secession. The whole "free the slaves" bit was secondary and after the fact. He went to war with his own people to crush liberty.

[neversummer900]

Agreed he did more to undermine the power of the constitution as the supreme law of the land. But his words are true The United States belongs to the people not the government. That was where I see the light in his statement.

I always laugh when I hear people quote Lincoln saying such things, I mean really, he's the one who was the sole biggest contributor to starting the civil war and it had NOTHING to do with Liberty, it had everything to do with stopping secession. The whole "free the slaves" bit was secondary and after the fact. He went to war with his own people to crush liberty.

[XC700116]

Agreed he did more to undermine the power of the constitution as the supreme law of the land. But his words are true The United States belongs to the people not the government. That was where I see the light in his statement.

Agreed, but realisticly, I equate it to Obummer saying the same thing as to the weight of credibility. IE, none with me. It's just one of my stings is all.