Road Warrior Radio with Chris Hinkley 7.24.18 Hour 2
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James Otis once wrote “As the people have gained upon tyrants, these have been obliged to relax, only till a fairer opportunity has put it in their power to encroach again.” Who was James Otis, and do you agree with his sentiments?
“The form of government is by nature and by right so far left to the individuals of each society, that they may alter it from a simple democracy or government of all over all, to any other form they please. Such alteration may and ought to be made by express compact: But how seldom this right has been asserted, history will abundantly show. For once that it has been fairly settled by compact; fraud force or accident have determined it an hundred times. As the people have gained upon tyrants, these have been obliged to relax, only till a fairer opportunity has put it in their power to encroach again.”
— James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764)
“Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure than they have it now, They may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty. They will only exchange Tyrants and Tyrannies.”
— John Adams, letter to Zabdiel Adams (June 21, 1776)
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
— Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1787)
“The turpitude, the inhumanity, the cruelty, and the infamy of the African commerce in slaves, have been so impressively represented to the public by the highest powers of eloquence, that nothing that I can say would increase the just odium in which it is and ought to be held. … humanity requires, that we should not inflict severer calamities on the objects of our commiseration than those which they at present endure, by reducing them to despair, or the necessity of robbery, plunder, assassination, and massacre, to preserve their lives, some provision for furnishing [380] them employment, or some means of supplying them with the necessary comforts of life. The same humanity requires that we should not by any rash or violent measures expose the lives and property of those of our fellow-citizens, who are so unfortunate as to be surrounded with these fellow-creatures, by hereditary descent, or by any other means without their own fault. I have, through my whole life, held the practice of slavery in such abhorrence, that I have never owned a negro or any other slave, though I have lived for many years in times, when the practice was not disgraceful, when the best men in my vicinity thought it not inconsistent with their character, and when it has cost me thousands of dollars for the labor and subsistence of free men, which I might have saved by the purchase of negroes at times when they were very cheap.”
— John Adams, letter to Robert J. Evans (June 8, 1819)
“Despite repeated warnings by Russia that bringing NATO to its borders would be perceived as a strategic threat of the first order, the momentum of NATO enlargement continued. … In the end, NATO’s existence became justified by the need to manage the security threats provoked by its enlargement. … A security dilemma, according to Robert Jervis, is when a state takes measures to enhance its own security, but those measures will inevitably be seen as offensive rather than defensive by other states, who then undertake measures to increase their own security, and so on — in this case provoking the Ukraine crisis. This fateful geopolitical paradox – that NATO exists to manage the threats created by its existence — provoked a number of conflicts.”
— Richard Sakwa, Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands (2015) p. 4
Callers
- Brien – WA
- Brendon O’Connell
- Iran
- Russia
- British Israel
- Israel
- Davey – TX
- Albert Mackey, Encyclopedia of Freemasonry (1873)
- Matthew 13:33-49
Links
- John Adams – Wikiquote
- The Works of John Adams, vol. 10 (Letters 1811-1825, Indexes) – Online Library of Liberty
- Abigail Adams – Wikiquote
- Letter to Samuel Kercheval | Teaching American History
- Police graduation slogan causes stir | The Spokesman-Review
- Facebook GraphQL
- GraphQL – Wikipedia
- Graph database – Wikipedia
- Graph Databases Will Change Your Freakin' Life (Best Intro Into Graph Databases) – YouTube
- Graph Databases Will Change Your Freakin Life – YouTube
- Digital Privacy Forum, Jan 20 2011 | Video | C-SPAN.org
- Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization by Paul Ohm :: SSRN
- Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry – Index
- Albert Mackey – Wikipedia
- Matthew 13:33 (NASB) – He spoke another parable to
- The Plain Truth: 'Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom'
