Bill Federer recounts unexpected truth of nation's successful governance
“May God save the country, for it is obvious the people will not.” – Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1832, the same year the Paris riots took place which were described in Victor Hugo’s novel “Les Miserables.”
Comparing the American Revolution with France’s numerous revolutions and riots, President Fillmore stated in his third annual message, Dec. 6, 1852: “Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our Revolution. They existed before. They were planted in the free charters of self-government under which the English colonies grew up, and our Revolution only freed us from the dominion of a foreign power whose government was at variance with those institutions. But European nations have had no such training for self-government, and every effort to establish it by bloody revolutions has been, and must without that preparation continue to be, a failure. …”
President Fillmore added: “Liberty unregulated by law degenerates into anarchy, which soon becomes the most horrid of all despotisms. … We owe these blessings, under Heaven, to the happy Constitution and Government which were bequeathed to us by our fathers, and which it is our sacred duty to transmit in all their integrity to our children.”
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1 comment:
It won't EVER happen in Europe again. Forever.
They allowed their "leaders" to disarm them and jail them for defending themselves.
Now, they are at the complete mercy of people like Merkel, who, despite the will of the people, will do whatever she wants and there is NOTHING the people can do about it.
No American politician wants to consider what 80-100 MILLION gun owners would do if they tried to take their weapons from them.
This ain't Australia.
Keep cheering!
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