MAY ALL ANONS HAVE A HEALTHY, HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!
'May your year and your relationships be enjoyed with non-hyphenated friends and family!
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(Don't let them divide & conquer you with hyphenated identity politics. We are all non-hyphenated Americans.)
Unity NOT Division
US CONSTITUTION PREAMBLE
September 25, 1789
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/usconst.asp
Six Point Mission Statement
UNION - JUSTICE - TRANQUILITY- COMMON DEFENSE- PROSPERITY & HAPPINESS - LIBERTY
We, the people of the United States, in order to:
1) Form a more perfect Union,
2) Establish Justice,
3) Ensure domestic Tranquility,
4) Provide for the Common Defense,
5) Promote the General Welfare,
6) and Secure the blessings of Lliberty to ourselves and our posterity,
do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
George Washington's Farewell Address Great Advice for Foreign Policy
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp
September 1796
*word search the Address for the word "evil"
"Sympathy for a favorite [foreign] nation, gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation."
"As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils. Such an attachment of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter."
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests."
DECLARATION OF INDEPENENCE
July 4, 1776
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/declare.asp
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
"That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown 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."