WHY DIDN'T WE EVER LEARN THAT?!!

Why didn't we ever learn in school that an American President issued an executive order to send American citizens to concentration camps based on their ethnicity? (Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Ex. Order 9066, February 19, 1942)

Why didn't we ever learn in school that there were a greater number of blacks proportionate to whites in the American South who owned slaves?  (search William "April" Ellison, among others). 











Why didn't we ever learn in school that monetary inflation can be avoided?  Its not just something that inevitably happens over time.








We learned about Lincoln's Gettysburg Address but why didn't we ever learn in school that he also said this:





"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union:"  (Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862)

THE ENEMY WITHIN?

"Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."

-Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum Address-

FREEDOM vs. SAFETY

Would you rather be FREE or SAFE?  That is a tricky question and I might even respond to the question with this question, "Could I have both?"  However, I believe the answer is an unfortunate NO.  I don't think there's any way to guarantee safety, but I do think you can be guaranteed freedom.  The people who designed our country's system understood this pretty well.  

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it."  ~Thomas Jefferson~

"Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."  ~Ben Franklin~

There are many others who understand this idea as well.  Some of them from more recent times.

"Freedom is not defined by safety.  Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference.  Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place."  ~Ron Paul~

"If you want total security, go to prison.  There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on.  The only thing lacking is freedom." ~Dwight D. Eisenhower~