as well as one your nation's Founding Fathers.

Perhaps you and the OP have forgotten his precept concerning the most basic civic duty:
'It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.'

Note that he did not qualify the questioning of authority as 'the second', 'third', 'fourth' or any lesser order of civic duty, but as the very 'first'.

Your invocation of a blind obedience to your leader/commander-in-chief (Ger. Fuhrer), does you no credit. Subject to the Geneva Convention and common humanity, 'Ours not to reason why, ours but to do or die', may, be a legitimate tenet of an infantry soldier to live or die by, but it is not appropriate for members of civil society.