“Let us take care of our rights, and we therein take care of our property. 'Slavery is ever preceded by sleep.”

— John Dickinson

From Letters from a Farmer, in Pennsylvania, to the inhabitants of the British Colonies, Letter XII, Dickinson, Philadelphia

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American politician 1732–1808

W. Cleon Skousen (1913–2006) ex FBI agent, conservative United States author and faith-based political theorist

The 5,000 Year Leap (1981)

“We believe in taking care of each other, and in lifting each other up, and leaving no one behind, and in meeting the collective responsibilities that we can only meet together: The security of our nation. The education for our children. Dignity for our seniors. Equal rights for all of our citizens. Health care -- which is now a right for everybody. And the care and well-being of our veterans and your families. That is a responsibility for all of us, not just a few. We all have to do our part.”

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2016, Convention (August 2016)

“No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.”

John Jay (1745–1829) American politician and a founding father of the United States

Address to the People of Great Britain https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Address_to_the_People_of_Great_Britain, drafted by Jay and approved by the First Continental Congress on 21 October 1774 ; as contained in American Eloquence: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses by the Most Eminent Orators of America, Volume 1, ed. Frank Moore, D. Appleton (1872), p. 159
1770s

“Finally, let us take care that the book possesses all the virtues of style, so that it may last forever as a witness to our profound scepticism and our universal irony.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Quoted, The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

“we must take care of our families wherever we find them.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

“I been knocking on the door that holds the throne.
I been looking for the map that leads me home.
I been stumbling on good hearts turned to stone.
The road of good intentions has gone dry as a bone.
We take care of our own.
We take care of our own.
Wherever this flag’s flown,
We take care of our own.”

Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter

"We Take Care of Our Own"
Song lyrics, Wrecking Ball (2012)

“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 122

“We spent three trillion dollars in the Middle East, right now, where that money could have been used to take care of our veterans, first and foremost, who've been over there fighting, but also take care of the people that need help here in the United States instead of wasting it overseas.”

Danny Tarkanian (1961) American businessman, attorney, and perennial candidate

Source: Danny Tarkanian on MAGA: ‘Secure Our Borders’ and ‘Build a Wall’ https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/10/19/danny-tarkanian-on-maga-secure-our-borders-and-build-a-wall/ (19 October 2018)

“Let us, in particular, take care not to forget the principles of the Revolution. ... I will only take notice of the three following:
First; The right to liberty of conscience in religious matters.
Secondly; The right to resist power when abused.
And, Thirdly; The right to chuse our own governors; to cashier them for misconduct; and to frame a government for ourselves.”

Richard Price (1721–1791) Welsh nonconformist preacher and radical

Source: A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1789), p. 34

“Life's a pudding full of plums;
Care's a canker that benumbs,
Wherefore waste our elocution
On impossible solution?
Life's a pleasant institution,
Let us take it as it comes!”

W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo

The tangled Skein.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Let us take care of our rights, and we therein take care of our property. 'Slavery is ever preceded by sleep.”

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