Liberty, Bach, Tchaikovsky and the Leaf

We meet again for another moment of relaxation and a selection of fine tobacco.
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A few thoughts:

-"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood." -John Adams

-"In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example … of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness." -James Madison

-“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” -James Madison

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” – Tenth Amendment, 1791

-“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” -James Madison

-“I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.” -Thomas Jefferson

-“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” -James Madison

-“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.” -Thomas Jefferson

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Tobacco: Rattray's Red Rapparee

Pipe: Mr. Brog

Music:
Bach - Violin Partita no. 2 - BWV 1004 [Copyright Free]
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite, op. 71a - Act II
Music provided by Classical Music Copyright Free [https://tinyurl.com/visit-cmcf]