In the times that try men’s souls, our duty is to hold the flame of liberty all the higher and trust to the strength of what we stand for.
This article is from The Editor’s Corner, with insights, short-posts, links, and general ramblings from Editor/Owner Justin Stapley.
It seems, for many, the question of this election ultimately comes down to whether or not you believe the nation is saved or destroyed by who sits in the White House.
I have never believed that.
It’s true that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. But that speaks more to each generation’s choice whether to carry our nation’s founding principles or to shrink from that legacy.
If we really care about safeguarding the future of this republic, we would be far more concerned with combating the narratives that tell Americans to set aside their principles and values then we are about who’s president.
The message of the Republican Party in 2016. and now the Democratic Party in 2020, is that principles and values are inconvenient to the dire times we find ourselves in. They have both come to define themselves by what they stand against and not what they stand for.
But I reject these narratives because I have always been moved by the words that inspired a rag-tag army facing the might of the strongest military in the world:
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
“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 everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”
I implore every American willing to listen. Choose to find reasons to stand for something. Reject the voices that tell you to set aside your principles to support a path you don’t truly believe in.
The darker the storm, the harder the fight, the more dire the circumstances, the more important our duty to hold the torch of liberty high and trust to the strength of what we stand for.
#PrinciplesNow #LibertyFirst
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