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02-04-2008, 04:17 PM
By Matt Hawes
History is, of course, a story. But it’s much more than “Once upon a time,” and “Happily (or not) ever After.”
History leaps off the page. It lives and breathes and communicates with us, showing mistakes and successes, losses and gains, tragedy and triumph.
Through it, those that have gone on before remain with us still. Ideologies, for good or ill, extend their teachings far beyond their original adherents.
What will future generations say of us? How will our experiences affect them and shape the way they act, think, and live out their own story?
Many have said that our movement is only the beginning, that those now awake will never go back to sleep. But for us to have a lasting impact, for us to live on, for us to truly revolutionize the world, we must follow our words with actions. We must be willing in these hours before Super Tuesday to talk to every voter we come across, to hand out literature to those on their way to the polls, to call our friends and neighbors and encourage them to get out and vote.
In short, if we are to fight for our liberties and restore constitutional, limited government, we must draw a line in the sand behind us and never fall back across it again, moving only forward and not stopping until the day we live in the America we all know can be ours.
The Founders lost the lives of friends and family in battle for their beliefs, and their perseverance and courage to see their goals achieved sound down through history like the cannon-fire they faced. They shook the world.
We can too. And we can inspire millions to come.
Make sure you vote and get out the vote. Dr. Paul and others have repeatedly shared that the two most important ways you can help us are to donate and to become a precinct leader. When you back up your words with your actions in the voting booth, you become one more voice saying to Washington that your liberties will no longer be ripped from your hands without a fight.
We can have the legacy of the 2004 Dean campaign, an effort remembered for lots of enthusiasm and no results, or we can be the authors of a new story: an epic tale of the time freedom, peace, and prosperity returned to our land.
The choice is ours.
http://people.ronpaul2008.com/campaign-updates/2008/02/04/what-will-our-story-be/
History is, of course, a story. But it’s much more than “Once upon a time,” and “Happily (or not) ever After.”
History leaps off the page. It lives and breathes and communicates with us, showing mistakes and successes, losses and gains, tragedy and triumph.
Through it, those that have gone on before remain with us still. Ideologies, for good or ill, extend their teachings far beyond their original adherents.
What will future generations say of us? How will our experiences affect them and shape the way they act, think, and live out their own story?
Many have said that our movement is only the beginning, that those now awake will never go back to sleep. But for us to have a lasting impact, for us to live on, for us to truly revolutionize the world, we must follow our words with actions. We must be willing in these hours before Super Tuesday to talk to every voter we come across, to hand out literature to those on their way to the polls, to call our friends and neighbors and encourage them to get out and vote.
In short, if we are to fight for our liberties and restore constitutional, limited government, we must draw a line in the sand behind us and never fall back across it again, moving only forward and not stopping until the day we live in the America we all know can be ours.
The Founders lost the lives of friends and family in battle for their beliefs, and their perseverance and courage to see their goals achieved sound down through history like the cannon-fire they faced. They shook the world.
We can too. And we can inspire millions to come.
Make sure you vote and get out the vote. Dr. Paul and others have repeatedly shared that the two most important ways you can help us are to donate and to become a precinct leader. When you back up your words with your actions in the voting booth, you become one more voice saying to Washington that your liberties will no longer be ripped from your hands without a fight.
We can have the legacy of the 2004 Dean campaign, an effort remembered for lots of enthusiasm and no results, or we can be the authors of a new story: an epic tale of the time freedom, peace, and prosperity returned to our land.
The choice is ours.
http://people.ronpaul2008.com/campaign-updates/2008/02/04/what-will-our-story-be/