The Symbiotic Relationship

In the family we can become who we need to be to help our country. The family is where we learn, grow, and become better. My mom and dad taught me how to read when I was four. We have scripture study every night, which helps us grow spiritually. Spencer W. Kimball said, “Home is the place to save society.” We will learn how to be leaders and how to work with others in our families, which we can’t learn anywhere else. I’m the oldest of six kids. I get to help my younger sibling with things like knitting, chores, and bracelet making.  We also learn to honor our fathers and our mothers, as is stated in the Ten Commandments. The family is where we learn how to protect our freedom and our country.

Our country is important. It should help uphold the importance of the family. Our country can keep us safe, free, and happy. If we didn't have our wonderful country we would not be as free and as happy as we are now. The pilgrims give an example of when a country was important in their lives. They were able to come to this great country to be free and independent. Our country plays an important part in our lives.

My family and my country both are important but my family draws a little ahead of my country. I see it as a symbiotic relationship as seen in the animal world. A symbiotic relationship is when to things help each other and both get something out of it. Clown Fish and Sea Anemones, Pilot Fish and sharks, and the Honey Guide Bird and the Honey Badger are just a few examples. So I think that’s the same with our families and our country. I would say its family that is most important, which helps our amazing country like a symbiotic relationship. 

Opinion Paper: Why is a moral people required for good government?

By Shaun Leahy

Why do governments fall when they started off with an iron will, a strong sense of morals and a tireless philosophy of freedom and rights for the people and turn in to a mad, conniving, thieving society that is thoughtless, corrupt and destructive? What happened to this government? How did these people begin to starve when the country was thriving and became one of the world's largest supplier in grain?

The answer to these questions is an immoral person with a charming smile. Every country that falls has many corrupt men behind it. For the person that represents a country has much influence and will set the tone of the country. A good, smart, uncorrupted government requires moral, sane people in charge. Why because they want to create a solid, stable government that the people truly want.

Another reason is because the moral man is not the one to speak lies that are often told to citizens to control of influence them. An immoral man speaks lies openly with pride and deception. A nation that is going to be a good nation must know the truth, with a government that will not do anything that makes the people grow ignorant and become unaware of what is happening to them. (Such as the Mao's Communist China, or North Korea today) I have noticed that all corrupt governments are soon replaced with other corrupted governments.

I also feel that the people themselves the regular average Joe are very important to this operation to have a good government the people must be involved and that is why I believe that one of the biggest reasons our country is failing is because the citizens of America are becoming less free and less involved in the country to make our nation stornger we must involve the people and they must be recognized for the people make up the country.

My point is that you must have moral people to run the country for they help to determine what is moral in a nation.

I believe that one of the duties of a citizen is to make sure that the person in charge is being ethical if they are not the nation will fall. The people do not want a dictator no one in the world wants to be a slave to their own nation, when that is the case, war will break out and unless the charges against this dictator a new corrupted nation would emerge from this fallen one. My point is that if you have strong, smart, moral people to run and be citizens in this nation that it would stay a strong, moral, and sane. If the people remain that way then so will this country.

What are my self-evident rights?

By Shaun Leahy

As human beings, there are certain rights that we cannot survive without. We will be dehumanized without these fundamental rights, and yet, there are countries in this world that are constantly taking away these natural laws, formed by humanity itself. Thought the tempest that is this world, something stands out when people are being unjustly treated. An understanding that we are all meant to be treated by with these standards. But what are they? What is the single most subject that all human beings agree upon? Here are some self-evident rights that I believe that every being wants.

1. The right to be treated fairly in the court of law. Innocent until proven guilty.
2. The right to be heard. By a nation, people, leader or even among friends.
3. Freedom of thought. To think what you want to think.
4. The right to associated with whomever you want to.
5. The freedom of speech.
6. The ability to learn what you want to. Read, write, or other forms of learning.
7. The right to be yourself or who you want to be.
8. The freedom to express yourself in any group.
9. The right to follow who you want to
10. The right to your own religion. To worship as you please
11. The right to express yourself
12. The right to choose your profession
13. The freedom to enjoy life.

These are just some of the self-evident that I believe all people upon this earth should have. If everyone in the world had these rights then we would have a better, smarter and saner society. I wonder what right I take away from people in my everyday life without trying to. I say this because these laws don't just apply to a government they apply to everyone in the world. Although the people should be the government. I wonder what I can to make sure that people around me are at least treated by their fundamental rights. I guess what I can do is to treat people the way I want to be treated. I believe everyone has the same rights, we are all born with these rights. And so to know my rights I must ask myself how I must be treated as a human being and how must I treat others.

The Flame of Liberty

 by Emerson Becker 

"For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine the coal can never expire," as declared by Thomas Paine. To understand what this statement is describing I'll take it apart. The "flame of liberty” he is referring to liberty as a fire. "For though it may sometimes cease to shine,” I would describe as our liberty is being taken away from us and we are taking it for granted. The "coal can never expire” means at least the idea of liberty will never be completely destroyed. I believe it is a true statement.

When the pilgrims came to America in 1620 for their religious freedom their flame of liberty was burning bright.

Through the years of living in America they took their freedoms for granted and their flame started dimming until it was almost coal.

Then when the king of England George the III started to take away their liberty their coal almost burst into flames. That started the revolution in the 1770's as it became a bonfire.

It burned for a couple hundred years but is now mostly coal. 

Some of us are stoking our fires. The right to own and use fire arms is being taken away. Organic farmers are having more and more regulations. We should wake up to what's going on around us and help bring back the "flame of liberty”.

Why is a good moral people required for good government?

For me, to define this question first I have to figure out what moral people are. The definition of moral is; good, honest, just, decent, and virtuous; a moral person does not lie or steel. To me that means a moral person believes in his/her ideals and tries his/her best to reach them, they have integrity and are honest and willing to do the right thing. They do what is right not what is easy.

Now to define why moral people are required for good government. Well for one thing laws would be bad because they must define the right thing to do and what will help people, if there weren't moral people to make those laws they will fail, and our country will, too. Moral people also must be in existence so that government can continue doing the right thing and elect a good president, as well as governors and representatives for the states and the country. And to explain and make deals and to promote America and Americas well being. That is how I would explain why moral people are required for good government.

Learning from history

Let’s Work Together
by Zack Milne

Abraham Lincoln was glumb
Robert E. Lee was a plumb
One wanted the right
The other to fight
They marched to the beat of thr’ own drum

Abe was a frontier bloke
About good laws he spoke
With Congress he sat
Chewing the fat
Wanting to free the slave folk

He wanted to free all the slaves
he had to be courageously brave
For about his cause
He created some laws
The South thought he was a knave

Robert E. Lee was a dandy
He liked to drink wine and brandy
He rose in the ranks
He didn’t use blanks
With a gun he was so handy

He was a Virginian man
Stick with Virginia, he can
He’ll never stray
Till he gets his way
Creating his battlefield plan

So against one another they fought
Using the strategies they taught
If one side won
The other’d be done
Leaving us to deal with the lot

We can all learn from this story
That one persons might isn’t glory
If we all combine
Life will be fine
Fighting and war is too gory

Define the word stubborn, and is it a good thing to be stubborn?

The dictionary says that stubborn means: having or showing dogged determination not to change one's attitude or position on something, especially in spite of good arguments or reasons to do so. Ok, well imagine if no one in the word was stubborn, everyone would be obedient, and that would be boring! But mostly being stubborn is good, to a certain extent. There is a place to stop though, you should not be stubborn at every single thing a person says, that would be argumentative, and that is not good, what a lot of people in the world need to know is how to tell stubbornness from being plain argumentative, so many people think they are being stubborn when they are being argumentative. Now though I need to tell you what the difference is, ask yourself, are you standing up for something you believe in, or are you standing up for everything, even if you think it might be bad, just standing up for it for the sake of it? Men in the war were stubborn, they stood being tortured, not just for the sake of it, because they were brave, because it was for their country, because it was the right thing to do, it wasn't easy, but it was right. Sometimes thought it is useless to be stubborn, if the object is impossible to reach, like in this quote: In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Simone de Beauvoir

In conclusion, stubborn is a good thing, if you are doing it for the right reasons.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.- Jeb Bush

What is your personal responsibility to America and freedom?

What is your personal responsibility to America and freedom?

I as an american belive it my duty to do my best to uphold our constitution and the memories of war, peace, happiness and prosperity within it. Fighting for our country to keep the honors of the men and women that died to protect our country, The United States Of America.

I belive that I Will do my duty to America by supporting the troops and helping to provide food and clothing for them. Also helping the homeless and donating clothes to places like goodwill, and St. Vincent de Paul.

There are so many small things that make a difference too! Standing up for bullying, what is right, telling the truth. Standing up for liberty even if nobody notices.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and loose out freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincon
The law, it protects our freedom. True laws protect people they don't take things and give them to other people, no, true laws let you give willingly to other people. Steeling is ALWAYS wrong, even when it may be a law, or hidden under one, it is still wrong

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhancesthe freedom of othere. Nelson Mandela I am an american, we have rights, meaning I have some things I can do and nobody else can stop me. But there are some things that I shouldn't do that is where your concience works. It tells you what is right and what is not.

Freedom is never more than one generation away fron extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstreem. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. Rohnald Reagan

Who Are We? 

We are youth from all across the country who want to make a difference in our community and nation. Our ages range from 11-17, we are all taking a class called Key of Liberty learning more about the American founding and the principles of liberty.

Rather than just complain about things in our nation we don't like or the way our nation is headed we have decided to take matters into our own hands and get an education and share what we learn and do with the rest of the youth of America.

Join us! Help us become the generation of youth who take america to its greatest heights. Share your thoughts with us. Sign up for a Key of Liberty class in your area. Do something good today to change someones life. Above all get and education! Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts with us.

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American freedom. What is my part?

 

The state of freedom we have in America is very uncommon. And it is my duty as a citizen and human being to maintain my rights that are available to all in this country. I believe that America is the place that has gotten the closest to being completely free. I believe that America is becoming less and less free with the government slowly taking over and the reason that is happening is because the American people do not understand the important of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and other important documents that helped to create America and American government. If people understood freedom and how unique their freedom is instead of taking it for granted, then we would be a much stronger country. I know that Americans must be educated and the people must know that they are free for if we do not understand that we are free we will not be. Because people with bad intentions will take it away by corrupting the education system and giving the youth "new ideas” about government, America and our Founding Fathers, that frankly are lies. In this new society we would not appreciate our Founding Father's original philosophy that all men are created equal and the people make up a country. My duty is to know that I have rights and to help educate others so that they are also aware their freedom and rights. I don't believe that freedom is absolute anarchy with no government at all. For that society would immediately fall apart. I believe that freedom is rights and privileges created by the people maintained by the people. My point is that America has freedom but if we do not uphold our ideas of freedom then they will be taken away. So we must learn.