Road Warrior Radio with Chris Hinkley 3.22.19 Hour 1

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By RBN March 22, 2019 14:33

In a word, let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing. The encroachments upon liberty in the reigns of the first James and the first Charles, by turning the general attention of learned men to government, are said to have produced the greatest number of consummate statesmen which has ever been seen in any age or nation. The Brookes, Hampdens, Vanes, Seldens, Miltons, Nedhams, Harringtons, Nevilles, Sidneys, Lockes, are all said to have owed their eminence in political knowledge to the tyrannies of those reigns. The prospect now before us in America, ought in the same manner to engage the attention of every man of learning, to matters of power and of right, that we may be neither led nor driven blindfolded to irretrievable destruction. Nothing less than this seems to have been meditated for us…

John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)


But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people, a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. While the king and all in authority under him were believed to govern in justice and mercy, according to the laws and constitution derived to them from the God of nature and transmitted to them by their ancestors, they thought themselves bound to pray for the king and queen and all the royal family, and all in authority under them, as ministers ordained of God for their good; but when they saw those powers renouncing all the principles of authority and bent upon the destruction of all the securities of their lives, liberties, and properties, they thought it their duty to pray for the continental congress and all the thirteen State congresses, &c.[sic]

John Adams, letter to Hezekiah Niles (Quincy [Massachusetts], February 13, 1818)


freedom, noun:
A state of exemption from the power or control of another; liberty; exemption from slavery, servitude or confinement. freedom is personal, civil, political, and religious.

freedom – Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


liberty, noun [Latin libertas, from liber, free.]:
Civil liberty is the liberty of men in a state of society, or natural liberty so far only abridged and restrained, as is necessary and expedient for the safety and interest of the society, state or nation. A restraint of natural liberty not necessary or expedient for the public, is tyranny or oppression.

liberty – Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

I admit (‘confess’?) today’s broadcast is one of those wherein my mind sees all the pieces, and each single piece simultaneously, which — as at least one caller attests — can come across as a chaotic hodgepodge of disjointed prolixity. See what I mean…?

In any case, it may come down to a matter of personal taste or style; what one person appreciates and may find relatable is perhaps another person’s bane…

Callers

  • Glenn – Philly
  • JJ – WA
  • Dave – WI
  • David – CA
  • John – TN

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