Department of Michigan
“Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.”
George Washington,
Farewell Address,
September 17, 1796
What we share in this country is a gift beyond measure, with those who protect it; our truest treasure.
“OUR VETERANS”
Veterans; you serve, care, and bleed for freedom’s need.
May we never forget the men and women who gallantly defend our freedom and our way of life. Their valiant service and sacrifice shines with unmatched brilliance. Pray for their safe return, that they may enjoy the life for which they fight.
Thank you Vets; you give the ultimate sacrifice for our country. You leave your families behind when serving, to protect everyone. May your families be shielded in your absence. May you also be shielded; thank you, Vets.
Sincerely,
Kari Witte
Department Commander – Michigan
“The patriot, like the Christian, must learn that to bear revilings and persecutions is a part of his duty; and in proportion as the trial is severe, firmness under it becomes more requisite and praiseworthy.”
Thomas Jefferson
“It is in the man of piety and inward principle, that we may expect to find the uncorrupted patriot, the useful citizen, and the invincible soldier. God grant that in America true religion and civil liberty may be inseparable and that the unjust attempts to destroy the one, may in the issue tend to the support and establishment of both.”
John Witherspoon
“You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve YOUR freedom. I hope you will make a good use of it.”
John Adams
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”
Thomas Jefferson
“In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.”
Thomas Jefferson