In discouraging times, I like to look back at the lives of great leaders who endured far worse than anything I've ever experienced. I am encouraged and inspired when I read their words and know they backed up their words with their lives--and they prevailed over unbelievable odds. Read and enjoy these lines from Samuel Adams, one of our Founding Fathers:
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can."
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
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