Why do we hide from our sins? The first step to recovery, the first step to being a better person or a better country, is to be able to just stand up and honestly say who you are and what you are.

I am an American. I live in a great country that was born in genocide and built on the back of slaves. - Michael Moore, Where to Invade Next

 
When the people fear the government, there is a tyranny.
When the government fears the people, there is liberty. - Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence was not designed to free everyone in America. Its original purpose was to free powerful American landowners from any obligations to the King of England. But... once those white men had signed that document, they unwillingly opened the road to freedom for the rest of us to walk along. - Morgan Freeman, The Story of Us

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice and the interest of the people themselves. - Grover Cleveland

We must be the great arsenal of Democracy. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

You know the difference between capitalism and socialism?
In capitalism, man exploits man.
In socialism, it's the other way around. - The Alienist

A government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. - Ronald Reagan


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