The purpose of the Alamance County TEA Party is to promote and defend the American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a non-interventionist foreign policy. In other words, to re-establish government envisioned by our Founders, a government of, by, and for the People of these united States! This group is about education and action. It's about the work of returning limited, constitutional government to America. It's about liberty and justice …

Join together with other patriots to promote a small, constitutionally-limited, federal government to ensure that our children will enjoy the liberties enjoyed by Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries.

From Wikipedia: During his defense when on trial for his life, Socrates, according to Plato's writings, pointed out that dissent, like the gadfly, was easy to swat, but the cost to society of silencing individuals who were irritating could be very high. "If you kill a man like me, you will injure yourselves more than you will injure me," because his role was that of a gadfly, "to sting people and whip them into a fury, all in the service of truth." We are libertarians. We believe in free people …