“If you see someone hurting, help them. If you can’t help them, at the very least don’t hurt them.”
THE AUTHOR’S RULE FOR THE YEARS AHEAD — AS DICTATED
“What has happened to common sense? Why is that not a class in school?” That is the author’s question to the nation, and it stands over the future as Paine’s COMMON SENSE stood over the founding: the book opened with Paine because the author believes the Republic’s next chapter opens the same way — with plain sight, plainly spoken.
Standing over this book’s war chapters, the author asks it without decoration: “How does it make any sense for a civilized society to partake in this?” And he gives the fallen the last word in it — his prophecy question, asked in their voice: “Was it worth it? Do we live like their sacrifice was worth it, friend — in reality?” A nation that cannot answer that question honestly has not yet learned what yesterday was trying to teach it.
“All the money for war, but we cannot feed the poor.” The author names the order of spending as the order of the heart, and condemns the table where price itself has become contempt: “We can charge you what we want — whether it breaks you or not.” Of those who choose that table he says only: “Not because they have to, but because they enjoy it.” His answer is the oldest one in his Book: “Flip the tables like Jesus flipped the tables. The corruption has got to stop.”
And his economics, in his own words: “Make it valuable. We decide what is worth money. If we could focus that toward helping and healing the nation first — instead of being greedy and selfish and sticking it all in our pockets — it could change everything.” Let the oil money and the war money, he says, go to helping and healing the nation.
The author honors the forefathers and all who have served and died for this country — Revolution to present — and he names the innocent by name: the victims of 9/11, of Oklahoma City, of the Boston Marathon, and the everyday people who get up and go to work and keep this nation standing. Then his conclusion, in his words: “This nation was founded on God and truth and right and justice — and we’ve got leaders who are just the total opposite. So we need to flip these tables and turn it all back around and give it all back to God — back to His children again in truth and right and justice. Because things are out of control. Period.”
And the manner of the turning, which the author himself ruled when asked how: not by war — this book has shown enough of war. “We’re supposed to be the revamping generation. We are supposed to revamp everything to better standards, higher quality.” The turning he calls for is the people’s lawful hand on the machinery: revamp the systems, and where leaders will not serve the truth, remove them by the people’s lawful means — that cleaner tool, “for peace.”
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
Let yesterday speak to today — and let today answer worthy of the men and women whose record this book has carried, and of the ones still to come.
— THE AUTHOR’S WORD, SET DOWN AS SPOKEN · JAMES PRICE · OCTOBER 2026