Ye Olde Consciousness Shoppe – 21st Century Insights: Writings and Images |
Tsagiglalal or She Who Watches pictograph
© 2012 Mary Caris
Quest: The Seeking Documents |
Community of Friends: Their Images and Writings | |||
Joel: Letters | Norm Sams: Photos | Esta Wolfram: Paintings | June Johnson: Essays |
Land of the Ancients: Stone Ruins and Petroglyphs in Western U.S.A. |
Fear is the path to the dark side. Yoda, Master Jedi, Star Wars |
Fear is the mind-killer. Frank Herbert, Dune |
They that can give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin, 1759 |
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Read the complete U.S. Constitution (pdf) |
“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. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Read the complete Declaration of Independence (pdf) |
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John and Mary Caris, shopkeepers