> Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Thank you. These lines sound as clear and fresh today as the day they were written. Man's troubles are indeed timeless, and wisdom as embodied here is our civilizations way of recognizing and dealing with it without creating the recurrent catastrophe's of the past.
Stay strong, and be Semper Fi.