A Republic, if we can keep it!

Exploring the United States Constitution. Knowledge of the intent and purpose along with values instill in ideas of nationalism and patriotism in preserving our republic.

Natural Patriot is a blog dedicated to deepening our understanding of the US Constitution and the role of nationalism and patriotism in maintaining a strong and thriving republic.
statue of man holding flag of america
statue of man holding flag of america
We The people text
We The people text
"Political freedom includes in it every other blessing. All the pleasures of riches, science, virtue, and even religion itself derive their value from liberty alone. No wonder therefore wise and prudent legislators have in all ages been held in such great veneration; and no wonder too those illustrious souls who have employed their pens and sacrificed their lives in defense of liberty have met with such universal applause. Their reputations, like some majestic river which enlarges and widens as it approaches its parent ocean, shall become greater and greater through every age and outlive the ruins of the world itself.”

Benjamin Rush

“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

Insights

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.”

Thomas Jefferson

the statue of liberty is holding a torch in its hand
the statue of liberty is holding a torch in its hand
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
Samuel Adams
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams