AMERICA, where the streets are paved with IOU's.
© jbranstetter04 - July 12, 2009

Your rights stop where my wallet begins.
© jbranstetter04 - March 21, 2010

I will never apologize for being an American. I will always fight for truth, justice, and the American way.

"Every man has the inalienable right to sleep and eat (if he has the edibles)"
-Fitts v. City of Atlanta

What is my country about? What is America about? I believe that President Lincoln summed it up best in his 1856 Speech in Bronson Park:
"This cause is that every man can make himself"

OUR DAY OF DELIVERANCE

November 4th, 2008 will forever be celebrated as Dependence Day. It will be commemorated as our Day of deliverance. It will be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward. Thank you Mr. Obama for giving us our Dependence, we are forever grateful.
-jbranstetter04 and John Adams

"America has to rule the world or someone worse than us will"
-James Ellroy
2:20 youtube.com/watch?v=xr7gv2DJuVU

"The government can give you many things, and in fact it can give you everything you need to live, but only at a price, and that price is, and has always been, your Freedom."
-jbranstetter04
(Said to a friend sometime in 2008)

[Freedom] is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people.
-Ronald Reagan, Gubernatorial Inaugural Address, January 5, 1967

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
-Edmund Burke

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.
-Ronald Reagan
October 27, 1964

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
-Alexander Hamilton, 1775
The Farmer Refuted, The Works of Alexander Hamilton, ed. John C. Hamilton, vol. 2, p. 80

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful na