AOL: More than 1,500 Emigrate to U.K. In Period Since Trump's Return to White House

More than 1,900 Americans applied for UK citizenship as Trump began second term
byu/CourtofTalons inConservative

 

They won't be missed; if you'd prefer the security of technocratic government than the uncertainty of freedom, then leave. As Samuel Adams once put it oh-so-delicately in a speech in Philadelphia in 1776, "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated 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 sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"

Founders Quote, 28-29 April 2025

A pair of quotes on we, the People, by Alexander Hamilton...

(1) The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority. - Federalist No. 22, 1787

(2) It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend they always reason right about the means of promoting it. - Federalist No. 71, 1788

On the first quote, I agree; all power in government (and the rights of the people) must arise from the consent of the governed. On the second, I also agree; Hamilton reminds us that even the worst ideas can come from good intentions.

Founders' Quotes, 6-7 March 2025

(1) Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. - John Adams, Defense of the Constitution — 1787

(2) Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers. - John Adams, Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law — 1765

Education is an important part of what makes (or should make) America that shining beacon on the hill, in that only an educated people can understand, respect and revere the freedoms and liberties we Americans take for granted. Of course, there's always a debate on what should be taught; that isn't new...what is new is that for decades the Left had a near-monopoly on education and only in the past few years have conservatives begun making inroads back into the educational sphere.