Declaration of Independence from the USSA

Rather than add to the list of offenses that Obama
has committed, [see DOI posts for 2009 and 2010], I will
list quotes by the main author of the Declaration of
Independence, Thomas Jefferson. I encourage you to view
the reading of the Declaration on YouTube by Mel Gibson,
Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Kathy Bates, et. al.

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men
free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and
improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor
the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good
government.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of
good conscience to remain silent.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one
another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the
greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting
or a vestry.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so
now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They
are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our
liberty.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of
the society but the people themselves; and if we think them
not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a
wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from
them but to inform their discretion.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same
time. Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when
we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the
minds of the people that these liberties are a gift of God?
That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed,
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just;
that His justice cannot sleep forever.