My preceding vote was cast in error.

The nation's flag far antedates the involution of its government.

The flag is powerfully emblematic of the American Ideal.

Accordingly, it ought to be honored.

Under all circumstances, on this profoundly beset by imperfection planet, is the perfection of government the
noble self government of the Sovereign Individual.

The only truly wholesome rendering of government is Virtue delimited self government, since the principles of the principled take for them their decisions.

Indolence is inherently incompatible with Virtue, which itself is a concomitant of vigilance.
Can a truly good man actually do nothing in the face of evil?

Government under the control not of Virtue informed, Principle constrained, Sovereign Individuals but of they for whom government is an idol have not only a tendency but a morbid disposition to abuse power.

As corruptive as is power, all temporal hierarchies, save for, ideally, the institution of the family, are loveless by their very natures.

It is only under the tutelage of Virtue, of which government is not a noteworthy repository, that that anyone accedes to the office of Sovereign Individual.

A Sovereign Individual, by virtue of his or her Virtue, necessarily lives to act in his or her own, and the nation's, best interests.

It is upon the recognition of the singularity of the dignity of the individuality of the individual that Civilization, ultimately, is founded.

In the apprehension of Truth, it is discernment that is requisite - a rooted in Reality ability to differentiate reality from unreality.

In the absence of a frame of reference, a Standard, there are no standards to be observed.

Mindless conformity can rightly be understood to be among the foremost hindrances to wholesome human progress.

In a polity peopled by Sovereign Individuals, police powers are naturally, necessarily, constrained by the Virtue of the people.

The Constitution lives in the hearts, minds and actions of those Sovereign Individuals who personify its timeless principles.

Further:

" Government, like dress, is a badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of Paradise."

Thomas Paine

Self government means self control.

I do esteem individual Liberty, which is realizable only under the tutelage and constraint of Virtue, above everything else.
What is a nation for, but to secure, under law, the maximum liberty to every individual.

Liberty naturally flows from, and is delimited by, moral constraint.

Love your country and be ever watchful of your government, as of yourself.

Common sense, brilliantly imparted by the brightly illumined mind of a being whose ideation was sovereign in character.

1776 was, indeed, an Anno Mirabilis.

The true dignity of a human being resides in the singularity of his or her individuality, which was ordained to be, and ought to be universally understood to be, inviolable.

Seneca's stature was that of our noblemen of nature Founders, with whose cause he would have identified and almost certainly supported.

It is reflexive for any truly sovereign Sovereign Individual, he or she whose personal sovereignty is necessarily predicated upon the ennobling presence of Virtue, to be mindful of the rights and sensibilities of his or her fellows.

It is this Virtue illumined mindfulness that constitutes the essence of civilization.

Innovation, generally, is a fruit of independent ideation.

Characteristically, collectives are not known for their originality.

Something such as Mr. Sikorsky would well have understood, since he fled the Bolshevik Involution.

An exemplary example is the most sublime of all instructors.

Originally, our conceived in Liberty Republic lead by example.