HUGH POWELL WORDS OF WISDOM
As Tea Party people, we are very grateful to Hugh Powell for his support of our educational efforts. Hugh, at his own expense has furnished us with bumper stickers, constitutions, copies of the Bill of Rights and much more. Below are three of the inspirational messages that he sent - well worth reading and thought provoking. We hope you enjoy.
MY CREED
by Dean Alfange
I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon...if I can. I seek opportunity ... not security.
I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole.
I prefer the challenge of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.
I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done.
All this is what it means to be an American.
STAND UP FOR AMERICA ___________________________________________________________________________________________
by - Albert Pike -
"Education is the greatest, yea, the only safeguard of liberty. When was there ever a country where the common people were uniformly uneducated, in which they were not slaves? ... A community of ignorant and uneducated men is not capable of self-government ... "
"Masonry is a march and a struggle toward the Light. For the individual as well as the nation. Light is Virtue, Manliness, Intelligence, Liberty. Tyranny over the soul or body, is darkness."
"He who does right is better than he who thinks right."
(Compliments of Most Worshipful Union Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons PHA, Office: P. O. Box 52657, Jacksonville, FL 32201 - Phone 904-354-2368 - 1-800-457-5391, Fax 904-355-8667)
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by Richard T. Lanier
TAKE TIME TO THINK ... It is the source of power.
TAKE TIME TO PLAY ... It is the secret of perpetual youth.
TAKE TIME TO READ ... It is the fountain of wisdom.
TAKE TIME TO PRAY ... It is the greatest power on earth.
TAKE TIME TO LOVE AND BE LOVED ... It is a God given privilege.
TAKE TIME TO BE FRIENDLY ... It is the road to happiness.
TAKE TIME TO LAUGH ... It is the music of the soul.
TAKE TIME TO GIVE ... It is too short a day to be selfish.
TAKE TIME TO WORK ... It is the price of success.
THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT
Time is the most precious gift ... That molds into the soul.
It creates things of interest ... It makes life pure and whole.
Each second of every moment ... It cast upon a screen.
The wise, they take it and use it ... And a fool lets it pass unseen.