This is what John Adams wrote to Abigail about July 4th: "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 Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of...
Telegraph.co.ukMaking HistoryWall Street JournalAll of these quotes are from David mccullough's "John Adams." More on Mr. mccullough in a moment. The vote was completed: 12 for independence, ...Independence DayEmporia GazetteSalute 233 years of democracy; toast Old Glory!Braintree ForumJefferson's words illuminate July 4Pensacola News JournalVirtue Online -Chillicothe Gazetteall 657 news...
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Both were from the once great state of Massachusetts and how we got from Adams and the Continental Congress to Kerry and The Criminal 111th is a damn inexplicable shame. Let us all pray that something soon awakens these liberals who wandering behind Obama and friends like slaughtered sheep in the wilderness, drunk on power and politics thus turning the government into something our Founders would not...
On July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after the Declaration of Independence first asserted American sovereignty, former U.S. Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both passed away.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams Let me tell you the story of an amazing coincidence of numbers. In fact, this is so perfect that many people don’t believe it. They write it off as fictional folklore. But it is true. We have to go back to the birth of this country. Back to the 13 colonies, and [...]
Here's a bit of Jewish American history appropriate for this holiday, from the Baltimore Jewish Times. Did you know: - President George Washington depended on Haym Salomon for financial advice and assistance? - Second US President John Adams wrote an 1808 letter criticizing French philosopher Voltaire's depiction of Jews, while expressing his respect for ancient Jewry? - Third US president and Declaration...
Telegraph.co.uk Let Freedom Ring Cookeville Herald Citizen John Adams nearly got it right. After the Continental Congress declared the Colonies free of Britain, he predicted in a letter to his wife, Abigail, "I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary ... The small falsehoods and great truth of the Fourth of July Los Angeles Times Independence...
“Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.” –John Adams “They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security.” –Benjamin Franklin “In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely [...]
In honor of Independence Day, here is a clip from the excellent HBO John Adams miniseries: Question: who was right? Thomas Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton?
“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, on Independence Day.
Should we be celebrating the 2nd instead of the 4th? I vote for the fourth. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124656447523887753.html " July 2, the final voting began. It went quickly. This was a pivotal moment in the political history of man. ... The vote was completed: 12 for independence, New York abstaining, no one opposing. "The break was made, in words at least: on July 2, 1776, in Philadelphia,...
by Hal_10000No idea how long HBO will let this stay up, but it’s the high point of their John Adams miniseries and never fails to get me choked up. When I look back over the last 233 years, what I see is the slow steady triumph of what these...
Do you think First Lady Michelle Obama is proud of America yet? Do you think she has learned more about her own country than she realized as candidate Obama's wife, speaking on the campaign stump admitting to an audience that she had never "really felt proud" of America until her husband became the candidate for President? Are you proud of such a self-absorbed, arrogant, hypocrite as your...
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