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"The American people will not be deceived by anyone who attempts to suppress individual liberty under the pretense of patriotism."

former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt

from his Fireside chat on Party Primaries, Washington, D.C., June 24, 1938
As quoted in the book: "Nothing to Fear" - The Selected Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 - 1945, edited by Ben D. Zevin Preface by Harry L Hopkins
With a special introduction by Allan Nevins
Popular Library Edition, Published in September, 1961

Copyright 1946 by The World Publishing Company


Printed in the United States of America

No Library of Congress Catalog Number; and no ISBN

A related link: http://special.lib.umn.edu/rare/roosevelt.phtml#Books


"A man who tries to carry a cat home by its tail will learn a lesson that can be learned in no other way"
-Mark Twain-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/

"If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind."

John Stuart Mill, Born 1806 - died 1873

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill

"It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

Jeremy Bentham
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Bentham.html

"MY SOUL IS MY COUNSEL and has taught me to give ear to the voices which are created neither by tongues nor uttered by throats.
"Before my soul became my counsel, I was dull, and weak of hearing, reflecting only upon the tumult and the cry. But, now, I can listen to silence with serenity and can hear in the silence the hymns of ages chanting exaltation to the sky and revealing the secrets of eternity."

By: KAHLIL GIBRAN, From 'Mirrors of the Soul, facing title page; Translated by Joseph Sheban Philosophical Library, New York 1965,
http://leb.net/gibran/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalil_Gibran


Khalil Gibran (full name Gibran Khalil Gibran bin Mikhael bin Saâd, Arabic: جبران خليل جبران بن ميخائيل بن سعد, Syriac: ܟ݂ܠܝܠ ܔܒܪܢ (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese American artist, poet and writer. He was born in Lebanon (at the time the Mount Lebanon Province of the Ottoman Empire) and spent most of his life in the United States. He is the third bestselling poet in history after Shakespeare and Lao Tse. [1]

Related Link: Ottoman Empire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire


for copies of the classical poetry listed, just click on the appropriate URL:

1. Around the Corner by Charles Hansen Towne

http://www.yuni.com/library/docs/354.html

2. It Couldn't Be Done by Edgar A Guest

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/graduation/poems-rhymes/it-couldnt-be-done.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Guest

3. They First Came... (a poem regarding the Holocaust)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

4. Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata

http://www.fleurdelis.com/desidera.htm

5. To A Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Bryant/waterfowl.html

6. A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81397

7. Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson

http://charon.sfsu.edu/TENNYSON/tennyson.html

8. The Fool's Prayer by Edward R. Sill

http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_fools_prayer.html

9. The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier

http://wwwl.kimopress.com/whittier.htm

http://www.all-creatures.org/poetry/theeternalgoodness.html

10. Yellow Triangle by Christy Moore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7y-9FqLluQ

11. Charters of Freedom, is a web site where one can find legible copies of the United States' "Declaration of Independence"; the United States Constitution, and the first 10 Admendments to the United States Constitution, which for U.S. Citizens, and others, is known as the "Bill of Rights".

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/




Liberty Tree
by Thomas Paine


IN a chariot of light from the regions of day,

The Goddess of Liberty came;

Ten thousand celestials directed the way,

And hither conducted the dame.

A fair budding branch from the gardens above,

Where millions with millions agree,

She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love,

And the plant she named Liberty Tree.

The celestial exotic struck deep in the ground,

Like a native it flourished and bore;

The fame of its fruit drew the nations around,

To seek out this peaceable shore.

Unmindful of names or distinctions they came,

For freemen like brothers agree;

With one spirit endued, they one friendship pursued,

And their temple was Liberty Tree.

Beneath this fair tree, like the patriarchs of old,

Their bread in contentment they ate

Unvexed with the troubles of silver and gold,

The cares of the grand and the great.

With timber and tar they Old England supplied,

And supported her power on the sea;

Her battles they fought, without getting a groat,

For the honor of Liberty Tree.

But hear, O ye swains, 'tis a tale most profane,

How all the tyrannical powers,

Kings, Commons and Lords, are uniting amain,

To cut down this guardian of ours;

From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms,

Through the land let the sound of it flee,

Let the far and the near, all unite with a cheer,

In defence of our Liberty Tree.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Liberty_Tree"

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Liberty_Tree

For information on the historic Boston Tea Party, click on this link:

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/teaparty.htm