Thread by @soychicka

Dear Americans:

"There are certain forces urging resistance to law in the name of freedom. They are not seeking freedom for themselves - they have it.

They are seeking to enslave others.

Their works are evil. They know it.
They must be resisted.

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The evil they represent must be overcome by the good others represent.

Their ideas which are wrong, for the most part imported, must be supplanted by ideas which are right.

This can be done.

The meaning of America is a power which can not be overcome."

- Calvin Coolidge, 1920.

"Prosecution of the criminals and education of the ignorant are the remedy. It is fundamental that freedom is not to be secured by disobedience of the law - even the freedom of the slave depended on the supremacy of the constitution.

There is no mystery about this.

They who sin are the servants of sin.
They who break the laws are the slaves of their own crimes.

It is not for the advantage of others that the citizen is [[abjured]] to obey the law, but for his own advantage.

That which we claim the right to do to others, that must he admit that others have the right to do to him.

His obedience is his own protection.

He is not submitting himself to the dictates of others, but responding to the requirements of his own maker.

Laws are not manufactured. They are not imposed. They are rules of action existing from everlasting to everlasting.

He who resists them resists himself.
He commits suicide.

The nature of man requires sovereignty.

Government must govern.
To obey is life; to disobey is death.

Organized government is the expression of the life of the commonwealth.

Into your hands is entrusted the grave responsibility of its protection and perpetuation."

"Government is not and must not be a cold, impersonal machine, but a human and more human agency.

Appealing to the reason.
Satisfying the heart.
Full of mercy.

Assisting the good
Resisting the wrong.

Delivering the weak from any impositions of the powerful.

This is not paternalism, not servitude imposed from without, but the freedom of a righteous self-direction from within.

And thus it must be humanized, not destroyed.
It must be an instrument not of selfishness, but of service.

Change not the law, but the attitude of the mind.

Let our citizens look not to the false prophets,
but to the children.
Let them fix their eyes on Plymouth Rock
as well as Beacon Hill.

The supreme choice must be not the things that are seen, but the things that are unseen.
Our government belongs to the people."

And THAT, my friends, is how you Law and Order.