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Tag Archives: Declaration of Independence
Happy birthday America
“Well, Gentlemen, we must now hang together, or we shall most assuredly hang separately.” — Benjamin Franklin, upon signing the Declaration of Independence – (according to John Hancock) The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies In CONGRESS, July 4, … Continue reading
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July 3, 1776: John Adams: “The Hopes of Reconciliation … at last totally extinguished”
JOHN ADAMS, in a July 3, 1776 letter to Abigail, after the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 2: The Delay of this Declaration to this Time, has many great Advantages attending it. The Hopes of Reconciliation, … Continue reading
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Abraham Lincoln: “All honor to Jefferson”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, on Jefferson’s writing of the Declaration of Independence: All honor to Jefferson, to the man who had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, and so to embalm it there, … Continue reading
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1776: John Page: “an Angel rides in the Whirlwind”
JOHN PAGE TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, July 20, 1776 on the signing of the Declaration of Independence: God preserve the United States. We know the Race is not to the Swift nor the Battle to the Strong. Do you not … Continue reading
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“Self-evident”
In this post below, I mentioned the fact that Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence, had the words “sacred and undeniable” instead of what is now there: “self-evident”: “We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable …” … Continue reading
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Tagged American Sphinx, Declaration of Independence, Joseph Ellis, Thomas Jefferson
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Jefferson and Locke
An excerpt from Paul Johnson’s sweeping A History of the American People: [Thomas Jefferson’s] first hero was his fellow-Virginian Patrick Henry, who seemed to be everything Jefferson was not: a firebrand, a man of extremes, a rabble-rouser, and an unreflective … Continue reading
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John Adams to Abigail, July 3, 1776
JOHN ADAMS, in a July 3, 1776 letter to Abigail, after the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 2: The Delay of this Declaration to this Time, has many great Advantages attending it. The Hopes of Reconciliation, … Continue reading
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August 2, 1776: “My hand trembles, but my heart does not”
Excerpt from David McCullough’s John Adams on the signing of the Declaration of Independence Apparently, there was no fuss or ceremony on August 2 [1776]. The delegates simply came forward in turn and fixed their signatures. Also a number … Continue reading
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Abraham Lincoln: “All honor to Jefferson”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, on Jefferson’s writing of the Declaration of Independence: All honor to Jefferson, to the man who had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, and so to embalm it there, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Declaration of Independence, politics, Thomas Jefferson, war
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“An Angel rides in the Whirlwind”
JOHN PAGE TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, July 20, 1776 on the signing of the Declaration of Independence: God preserve the United States. We know the Race is not to the Swift nor the Battle to the Strong. Do you not … Continue reading
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