64cj5
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Post by 64cj5 on Jul 3, 2022 15:12:12 GMT -5
July 4 1776 " The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding Generations as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of Deliverance, by solemn acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade,with Shows, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations, from One End of this Continent to the other,from this Time forward forever more."
JOHN ADAMS
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Post by Scoutpilot on Jul 3, 2022 16:02:10 GMT -5
The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, & what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. yet where does this anarchy exist? where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? and can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. they were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. god forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. the people cannot be all, & always, well informed. the past which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive; if they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. we have had 13. states independant 11. years. there has been one rebellion. that comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. what country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. what signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it’s natural manure.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I'M READY.
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