Our Mission and Vision

Our Mission and Objective

From our inception, our mission has been, and remains, to sustain the endowment of American Liberty in this generation and extend it to the next by first, advocating for individual rights and responsibilities; second, supporting the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary; and third, promoting free enterprise, national defense, and traditional American values.

Today, The Patriot Post serves a large audience of grassroots activists and grasstop influencers. As a primary touchstone for our fellow Patriots nationwide, we top the list of best investments you can make in the future of Liberty.

Our mission and objectives rest on the foundation of this essential affirmation: "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness..." We believe that all people are created with equal value and dignity, and that the Judeo-Christian faith is both the foundation upon which this affirmation rests and its eternal guardian.

The Patriot Post's analysis and opinion are not framed as Right or Left, Conservative or Liberal, nor Republican or Democrat. Our mission and advocacy — and that of all genuine Patriots who embody the legacy and spirit of our 1776 Founders — is framed by our commitment to Liberty over tyranny. Above all, we are devoted to the Gospel framework for Liberty, irrevocably endowed by our Creator.

The hard reality is that, for all time, Liberty has been and will continue to be threatened by its antithesis, statist tyranny and those who embrace it. The future of Liberty does not rest on one political campaign or cycle. It rests on the courage and fortitude of Patriots who remain steadfast in defense of the Unalienable Rights of Man.

In 1777, amid a string of defeats in our foundational quest for Liberty — as the fall of Philadelphia and the brutal winter at Valley Forge approached — General George Washington wrote his commanders: "We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times."

Defending American Liberty and our Republic's Constitutional Rule of Law has never been achieved, nor will it be, without a heavy price. The forces of tyranny — the forces of evil — have always been and will always be relentless. We are bound by our "sacred honor," our obligation "to support and defend" Liberty at all cost, to rise to the "exigency of the times."

Fellow Patriots, stand fast and firm! Hold the line. Remember who YOU are, brothers and sisters — who WE are together — and from what stock you come.

Alexander's inspiration for The Patriot Post was to counter the erosion of our Republic's political and social institutions under the regime of Bill Clinton and his self-proclaimed "co-president" spouse, Hillary Clinton, by effectively challenging their ability to manipulate public opinion to conform with the Left's oppressive and destructive statist views.

The greatest obstacle to civic knowledge today, and thus the most imminent and perilous domestic threat to American Liberty today, is collusion between the political Left and their Leftmedia propaganda platforms, combined with the "systemic redlining" of First and Second Amendment civil rights by self-appointed arbiters of truth, whose media ratings are used by Big Tech social media platforms to suppress conservative content.

The mainstream and social media promotion of the Left's agenda is more brazen now than at any time in our history. Thus, countering that threat is our most critical objective.

The Patriot Post's message is more critical today than ever, and our influential reach extends wide and deep. The Patriot Post is a primary Liberty resource for the expanding ranks of millions of grassroots Americans from all walks of life. Though we are a grassroots content and context resource for conservative national office holders, organizations, and think tanks, our first objective is to provide the rock-solid resources needed by local and regional "grasstop" leaders across our nation.

It is grassroots Americans who are doing the heavy lifting for Liberty in their communities and states, and supporting The Patriot Post provides direct support to those on the front lines. We provide the hardest-hitting analysis on the web, without diluting our pages with sensationalist click-bait and advertising.

Our original name, The Federalist, was inspired by The Federalist Papers, published in 1787 by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay to provide a detailed explanation of the meaning of the then-proposed Constitution and to support its ratification. Notably, Madison, Hamilton, and Jay chose to publish pseudonymously under the name "Publius" because it was the timeless message of Liberty which they were promoting — not themselves.

Today, too many "journalists" are also self-promoters, having forsaken the high standards of journalistic objectivity and integrity. Their abject bias betrays their ambition, and ambition is the adversary of truth.

Because The Federalist Papers serve as the inspiration for our constitutionally constructionist editorial context, you will note that every edition of The Patriot Post and the content on our website is authored collectively under the name "Publius," also the name of our publishing company. Likewise, out of humility and our commitment to promote First Principles rather than personalities, some of our authors, including Mark Alexander, publish as our Founders often did, by pseudonym. Our mission is to promote First Principles, not personalities.

The Federalist Papers were, and remain, the premier resource for understanding the Liberty and Rule of Law enumerated in our Declaration of Independence and enshrined in our Republic's Constitution. The Declaration and Constitution are the most significant assertions of the timeless and "unalienable Rights of Man" in the history of mankind.

Alexander launched The Patriot Post with sage advice from conservative protagonists William F. Buckley (National Review, Emeritus) and Ed Feulner (Heritage Foundation, Emeritus), foreseeing a day when the Internet would overtake print and cable media as a primary source of news and policy analysis — the most significant First Amendment advancement since our nation's founding.

He assembled an impressive National Advisory Committee and recruited an editorial team of bright, optimistic grassroots conservatives from across the nation. Together, they craft The Patriot Post's timeless, highly acclaimed analysis, advancing our mission.

First and foremost, The Patriot Post is an outstanding advocate of our Republic's constitutional Rule of Law over the rule of men, the irrevocable terminus of the latter being tyranny. Our editors frame current social, political, and policy issues in the constitutional context established by our Founders and supported today by the plurality of Americans, who uphold the most basic tenet of our Republic: "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

We are equipping the current generation of American Patriots with the right perspective, enabling them to more effectively "Support and Defend" the unalienable Rights of Man "endowed by our Creator," and the eternal cause of Liberty, as affirmed in our Declaration of Independence and its subordinate guidance, our Republic's Constitution.

Our editorial team uses reputable news and policy sources, and we never post the sensationalist "clickbait" found on the pages of Leftmedia platforms, and unfortunately too many Right-side political news sites. Nor will you find any "Fake News" fabrications and editorial tripe which, like clickbait, is driven by pursuit of market share and thus, the advertising revenues on which commercial publications depend.

Our website pages and emails are certified "Ad Free." Because we do not depend on a single penny of ad revenue, we focus solely on providing you content that is actually newsworthy — worthy of your time — rather than constantly churning the ubiquitous topics that now dominate the mainstream media's relentless 24/7 recycled spin.

Each weekday, our team compiles the flagship Mid-Day Digest edition, complete with top-notch Analysis articles, an executive news summary of the day's most notable news, and the best syndicated columnists, videos, and quotes on the Internet. On the lighter side, we begin the week with our Cartoons and Memes edition on Monday, featuring our best and funniest memes and cartoons from the week. Each Wednesday, Mark Alexander provides an in-depth analysis of important topics in Alexander's Column.

We offer extensive resources on our historic documents pages, our Founder's quote database, the Ronald Reagan archives, our emergency preparedness pages, and numerous reference pages. We also compile End of Watch tributes to law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.

Today, The Patriot Post's analysis and opinion have a substantial following, including policymakers in the executive and legislative branches, leaders in state and local government, and analysts in the community of conservative research and academic policy organizations nationwide.

But our primary objective is to arm grassroots Patriots across our great nation — those Americans who constitute who we really are as a people — with the timeless message of American Liberty. Grassroots Americans are the bedrock of our nation. We are an indispensable resource for "grass-top" leaders, who use our rebuttals to contemporary political, cultural, and mainstream media protagonists on the Left as a force multiplier and a source of critical information and inspiration for their grassroots constituencies.

Another way they promote Liberty is by distributing our extraordinary pocket guides, "The Patriot's Primer on American Liberty," to their groups. These booklets are a vital educational resource for Patriots of all ages. In addition to our Founding documents and other historic resources, these pocket guides include an outstanding preface on the endowment of Liberty by Patriot Post publisher Mark Alexander. They are available for bulk purchase and distribution to students, grassroots organizations, civic clubs, political gatherings, military and public service personnel, professional associations, and others. Millions are now in circulation. To obtain your Patriot Primers, use this link.

Our success has put us in the crosshairs of leftist politicos and their Leftmedia propagandists, who are relentless in their efforts to silence us. Please join us by supporting The Patriot Post today.

Our Operations and Funding Sources

The Patriot Post is owned and operated by Publius Press, Inc., under the leadership of PPI President Mark Caldwell, who also serves as The Patriot Post's publisher. Mr. Caldwell receives no salary compensation in either capacity, other than the reward of advancing our mission and operations.

From inception, our mission and operation budget has been funded solely by the voluntary financial support of our fellow Patriots.

We are not sustained by any political, special interest, or parent organization, and we do not accept advertising to ensure our advocacy and editorial content is not restrained by commercial influence — as is the case with all other mass media and social media platforms. Thus, you will note our website and email editions are free of the offensive advertising which clutters commercial news websites.

But publishing, like freedom, is not free.

Producing the nation's leading grassroots journal of Liberty requires outstanding editorial and technical teams, operations staff, sophisticated hardware, robust custom software, office space and installations, legal, accounting and insurance costs.

Our mission and operating budgets are a small fraction of those of other influential conservative organizations, primarily because we are located far from the DC Beltway news, policy, and opinion organizations, and our dedicated editors and staff are motivated by mission rather than deterred by modest wages.

However, our outreach is far-reaching, and we top the list of the best investments you can make in the future of American Liberty.

The Patriot Post is one of the most effective (and cost-effective) means of countering the Left's efforts to tear down America. We certainly didn't attain that status on our own. When others observed that my mentor, Ronald Reagan, was a "great communicator," he said humbly, "I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full bloom from my brow, they came from the heart of a great nation — from our experience, our wisdom, and our belief in the principles that have guided us for two centuries." Our success is the sole result of our steadfast devotion to and advocacy of "the principles that have guided us for two centuries," and those who have supported us all along the way.

Consistent with our publication's Military Mission of Service, we chose the donor-based model in order to offer our publications free of charge to the large ranks of our American military constituents — the current generation of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen who have carried forward the banner of Liberty since the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord. We wanted to extend the same free access to others in public service and especially to our student readers across the country.

Please help extend the blessing of Liberty to the next generation, and expand the ranks of grassroots Patriots nationwide by supporting The Patriot Fund.

We are entirely funded by the voluntary financial support of our readers, and we have operated in the black from inception. Our supporters understand that prosperity is not just about increasing their standard of living, but also about increasing their standard of giving.

We have not elected "501(c)(3)" tax-exempt status to avoid government regulation and restrictions on our editorial content. However, if you prefer to support only a tax-exempt organization with a similar mission, our publisher, Publius Press, Inc., President Mark Caldwell, also serves as the administrator of Patriot Foundation Trust (and receives no compensation in that capacity). The primary mission of Patriot Foundation Trust is to support active-duty and veteran military personnel and their families, and to encourage the next generation of American Patriots by providing resources that foster a proper contextual understanding of American Liberty. Notably, the Patriot Foundation is the funding arm for PatriotOpSoS.US, our Armed Forces Operation Shield of Strength outreach service. OpSoS is also supported by purchases from The Patriot Post Shop.

If you wish to support Patriot Foundation Trust directly, or through a charitable fund or estate, please link to the Foundation's homepage.

As we note in all of our editions, please join us in prayer for our nation's Military Patriots standing in harm's way, for our First Responders, and for their families. Please lift up your Patriot team and our mission to support and defend our Republic's Founding Principle of Liberty, in order to ignite the fires of freedom in the hearts and minds of our countrymen. Thank you for supporting the Patriot Post, our nation's premier online journal of Liberty.

Our Vision

"For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us." —John Winthrop, 1630 (Pilgrim & First Governor of Massachusetts)

The Patriot Post is the Journal of Record for the modern American revolution, revitalized by Ronald Reagan and inspired by the original American Revolution led by George Washington, and waged by the current generation of American Patriots from all walks of life. We remain, as our forefathers, steadfast in our resolve to support and defend at all costs American Liberty, and the unalienable rights of all people to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."

We believe that individual Liberty, the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and the promotion of free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values, can be secured only through the proper exercise of individual rights and responsibilities enshrined by our nation's Founders in our Declaration of Independence and codified in its subordinate exposition, our Republic's Constitution.

As finite guidance for understanding the plain language of our Constitution, we rely, first and foremost, on the writings of those Founders who authored it, including the clear and comprehensive defense of that venerable document in The Federalist Papers by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay.

In accordance with the wisdom set forth by our Founders, we know that the constitutionally authorized role of our central government was, and remains, limited, as defined by the Tenth Amendment to our Constitution, "I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people,'" noted Thomas Jefferson. "To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition."

The Constitution and its 10th Amendment are very specific about the limited powers of the central government versus those reserved by the several states and the people, but constitutional federalism has suffered severe insult, most notably first by our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, and in the 20th and 21st centuries by the administrations of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Barack Hussein Obama. The encroachment on those powers continues largely unabated to this day, accelerated by what Jefferson called the "despotic branch" — judicial activists who do the bidding of those in the executive and legislative branches.

Indeed, many of our Founders' concerns about the central government's usurpation of power have been borne out. Though the Federalists provided a mechanism to amend our Constitution to redress those issues, few leaders today have the vision and courage of our Founders. As a result, the "central government" prescribed by our Constitution, ratified in 1787 and reaffirmed by Ronald Reagan's Executive Order on Federalism in 1987 (our Constitution's Bicentennial), bears little resemblance to the "federal government" today.

Thus, we have become a nation where the Rule of Law is at great risk by the rule of men — the latter being wholly antithetical and hostile to the immeasurable sacrifice of millions of Patriots since the battles of Lexington and Concord, in support of Liberty. We know, as did John Adams, "A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."

The dissemination of The Patriot Post's timeless message of American Liberty, limited government, and free enterprise is critical to furthering our Founders' vision for a free people. As Thomas Paine wrote, "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it."

Throughout history, the burden of keeping the flame of Liberty bright has fallen on the shoulders of a few men and women. As Founding Patriot Samuel Adams once noted, "It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." We welcome to our ranks Patriots from all walks of life who are singularly devoted to the cause of Liberty. Our devotion to that cause is as steadfast as that of Patrick Henry: "Give me liberty or give me death!"

To those who do not rise to that call, again, on the words of Sam Adams, "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"

Statement of Faith

IChThUS Imprimis — Christ First

Resolved by the Board of Directors that we, and the National Advisory Committee, Editors and Staff of The Patriot Post, willingly and of our own free will, affirm our belief in, reliance upon and commitment to the God of Christendom, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We further Resolve, that the Board of Directors, National Advisory Committee, Editors and Staff of The Patriot Post affirm our commitment to advocate the Credo outlined in The Patriot's statement of First Principles, including the advocacy of standards of righteousness that honor God and His precepts for living, and adherence to a standard of truth, based on God's Word.

ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ACTING IN THEIR OWN BEHALF, AND ON THAT OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE, EDITORS AND STAFF OF THE PATRIOT POST, UPON ITS INCEPTION, AND RENEWED EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER.

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Statement of Principles

Principium Imprimis — First Principles

We believe that individual Liberty and personal responsibility, together with limited government, free enterprise and a stalwart national defense, are essential to sustain the legacy of our national heritage.

Individual liberty rapidly decays into corruption and anarchy without a meaningful commitment to personal responsibility based on our nation's Judeo-Christian heritage. Traditional beliefs and values must therefore continue to serve as our touchstone and compass.

On comprehending history, Thomas Sowell wrote: “One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again. Do we need to keep repeating the same mistakes forever?”

That is a contemporary version of this observation from 20th-century philosopher George Santayana, who concluded in his treatise, The Life of Reason: “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” English writer and dystopian philosopher Aldous Huxley put it more succinctly: “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”

In 1764, as revered historian Edward Gibbon “sat musing amidst the ruins” of Rome, he was inspired to write about the failure of republics. It is no small irony that the original text of his seminal work, “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” was published in 1776, as our Patriot ancestors were declaring our innate right to Liberty. Gibbon outlined in detail how opulence and entitlement led to the incremental degradation of civic virtue.

The 18th/19th century Scotsman Alexander Fraser Tytler, a lawyer and professor of history at the prestigious University of Edinburgh, summarized the link between opulence and loss of virtue as follows: “[Patriotism], like all other affections and passions, operates with the greatest force where it meets with the greatest difficulties … but in a state of ease and safety, as if wanting its appropriate nourishment, it languishes and decays. … It is a law of nature to which no experience has ever furnished an exception, that the rising grandeur and opulence of a nation must be balanced by the decline of its heroic virtues.”

This contiguous rise and decline has been characterized as "The Cycle of Democracy" (often misattributed to Tytler as its source). The cycle follows this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to Liberty (Rule of Law);
From Liberty to abundance;
From abundance to selfishness;
From selfishness to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage (rule of men).

Tytler’s assertion about the relationship between opulence and decadence reflected his astute understanding of human nature.

Put another way by contemporary post-apocalyptic novelist Michael Hopf in "Those Who Remain": "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times."

As for the gap between dependence and bondage, philosopher and author of Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand wrote, "The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time." Are we irrevocably locked into the Cycle of Democracy where rule of men is inevitable, or will Republican Rule of Law prevail?

Our Founders established a republican form of government to enfeeble the Cycle of Democracy; however, the advent of a national means of shaping public opinion (mass media) has broadly undermined those republican protections. The politicians who control most of these media propagandists promote "democracy" — dependence on the state by expanding statist power through the redistribution of wealth, and rewarding votes from their subjugated constituencies with benefits from the public treasury. Thus, our Republic is at higher risk of following the same degenerative cycle as democracies, unless there is intervention by leaders committed to republican principles, a higher calling than their own self-interests.

Our national political parties, Republicans and Democrats, take their respective names from these two distinct and antithetical forms of government. Their names alone project whether they promote the Liberty of republicanism, or the tyranny of democracy.

We believe that a government that is strong but limited best secures Liberty. The letter of the Constitution defines these limitations, and when our government oversteps them, it becomes tyrannical — regardless of the party in power. This notion of limited government — Lex Rex and not Rex Lex — guided our Founders as they composed the Declaration of Independence. This established a nation guided by the rule of law, not the rule of men.

We believe the fundamental duty of the federal government is to secure the rights of its citizens. This is accomplished through a fair and robust justice system, a strong national defense, and a foreign policy that always puts America's interests first.

We believe that the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and the best instrument yet instituted by man for protecting personal Liberty by establishing a limited and defined role for government. Its genius lies in its clear separation of powers at the federal level and its recognition that other non-enumerated powers reside with the states and their citizens.

We believe that the only economic philosophy congruent with these commitments to individual Liberty and limited government is free market capitalism. Individuals contribute to this system through personal industry and initiative; government contributes by confining its regulatory activity within constitutional limits and by employing a system of taxation that is fair and comprehensible for all citizens. Entitlements and welfare schemes destroy not only personal initiative and responsibility, but also Liberty and prosperity. Political freedom is inseparable from economic freedom. Thus, when the government stays within its constitutional role, America prospers.

In 1916, an outspoken advocate for Liberty, William J. H. Boetcker, published a tract entitled "The Ten Cannots." It fittingly contrasts the competing political and economic agendas of the right and left in this era:

• You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
• You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
• You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
• You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
• You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.
• You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
• You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
• You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
• You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
• You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they will not do for themselves.

Indeed.

However, now the Democrat Party is replete with Western apologists for socialist political and economic agendas advocating, essentially, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist collectivism.

Nineteenth-century historian Alexis de Tocqueville once observed, "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."

Tocqueville was commenting on Liberty and free enterprise, American-style, versus socialism as envisioned by emerging proponents of centralized state governments. And he saw on the horizon a looming threat — a threat that would challenge the freedoms writ in the blood and toil of our nation's Founders and generations since who have honored their oaths "to support and defend" our Constitution.

Unfortunately, few in the Executive, Legislative, or Judicial branches of government abide by their solemn oaths.

We envision an America where the primacy of constitutional authority, especially constraints on the legislature and judiciary, will be restored in order to ensure Liberty, opportunity, prosperity and civil society; where the primacy of traditional families and timeless values are the foundation of culture; where the primacy of religious Liberty restores religious expression in the public square; and where we can rest assured that our nation is fully capable of defending our national security and national interests.

Let there be no doubt, then, that The Patriot Post's allegiance to our Constitution and the authority of our Declaration of Independence far exceeds loyalty to any individual, organization, or political party. Indeed, it is this selfsame allegiance that brought The Patriot Post into being.

Our Logo and Motto

Our mission and operational principles are reflected in the Latin and Greek used in our publications.

Our logo features a single star among 50, conveying that our strength and unity are in "One Nation Under God," on a foundation of the rights of each state, as our Founders intended.

Our motto is Latin, as was customary among our Founders:

Veritas vos Liberabit
(The Truth Will Make You Free — from John 8:32)

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus Et Fidelis
(Always Vigilant, Strong, Prepared And Faithful)

Other translations of elements in our publications include:

Pro Deo Et Libertate — 1776
(For God And Liberty — 1776)

Pro Deo Et Constitutione — Libertas Aut Mors
(For God And Constitution — Liberty Or Death)

Fidelis Deo Et Patriaeque
(Faithful To God And Country)

Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
(To Keep Peace, Prepare For War)

De Oppresso Liber
(To Liberate The Oppressed)

Lex Et Libertas
(Law And Liberty)

Ichthus Imprimis:

Ichthus is the Greek spelling for "fish" and a noted symbol of early Christendom, as Jesus called on His disciples to be "Fishers of Men." In the early Church, when believers were being persecuted, a secret method for determining if a stranger was a fellow Christian was to draw a crescent shape on the sand. If the stranger drew the inverse of that crescent shape, thus completing the Ichthus symbol, that conveyed he or she was a fellow Christian.

Ichthus forms the Greek acronym: Iota Chi (Jesus Christ) Theta Upsilon (Son of God) Sigma (Savior).

Imprimis means foremost.

Guiding Documentation

Primary Sources

• Holy Bible
• The Code of Hammurabi
• The Constitutions of Clarendon
• The Magna Carta
• The Declaration of Arbroath
• English Bill of Rights
• Mayflower Compact
• U.S. Declaration of Independence

Secondary Sources

• U.S. Constitution
• The Federalist Papers
• The Anti-Federalist Papers

Scripture

• "Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." —Leviticus 25:10, as inscribed on the Liberty Bell
• "[B]ut as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." —Joshua 24:15b
• "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord." —Psalm 33:12a
• "[A]nd you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." —John 8:32
• "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." —2 Corinthians 3:17
• "See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority." —Colossians 2:8-10

Founders

• "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ... Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." —Thomas Jefferson
• "If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." —Samuel Adams
• "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!" —Alexander Hamilton
• "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." —Benjamin Franklin
• "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God, I know not what course others may take, but give me liberty or give me death!" —Patrick Henry
• "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." —George Washington
• "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people." —John Adams