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John Adams reflects on the Declaration of Independence

In 1826, just a few weeks before he died, John Adams received an invitation to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of American independence in his hometown of Quincy...

Thomas Jefferson reflects on the Declaration of Independence

In 1826, just a few weeks before he died, Thomas Jefferson received an invitation to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of America's independence in Washington, D.C...

July 2, 1776 - Continental Congress voted to declare Independence

"The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.—I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Genera...

Founding Father Quote of the Day - February 11 (2)

.jpg) "But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to it’s strength by...

Founding Father Quote of the Day - February 11

"It would seem impossible that an intelligent people, with the faculty of reading, & right of thinking, could continue much longer to slumber under the pupilage...

Founding Father Quote of the Day - February 9

"The important distinction so well understood in America, between a Constitution established by the people and unalterable by the government, and a law establis...

Founding Father Quote of the Day - February 8

"[D]oes it follow that one violation of the constitution is to be justified by another?" - James Madison, February 8, 1791....

Founding Father Quote of the Day - February 7

"It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed Constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of Tyranny, & thos...

Founding Father Quote of the Day - January 27 (#3)

.jpg) "That elections may not be contaminated by strangers, or unqualified persons, may it not be necessary that every man may be known, as far as possible, whe...

Founding Father Quote of the Day - January 27 (#2)

.jpg) "I learn with great concern that a portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common fire...

Founding Father Quote of the Day - January 27

"At length we are in Peace, God be praised; & long, very long may it continue. All Wars are Follies, very expensive & very mischievous ones. When will Mankind b...

Founding Father Quote of the Day - January 24 (#2)

.jpg) "You might as well, with the sailors, whistle to the wind, as suggest precautions against having too much money. We must scud then before the gale, and tr...

Founding Father Quote of the Day - January 24

.jpg) "[Y]ou remember how rapidly our money went down after our 40. for 1. establishment in the revolution. I doubt if the present trash can hold as long. I thi...

Enslaving America: Part I

PART I - THEN On January 23, 1775, an essay appeared in The Boston Gazette. It was sort of like today’s letters to the editor, only longer, more erudite, and ad...

Founding Father Quote of the Day - January 23 (#2)

.jpg) "A settled plan to deprive the people of all the benefits, blessings and ends of the contract, to subvert the fundamentals of the constitution—to deprive ...

Founding Father Quote of the Day - January 23

"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty." - John Adams, January 23, 1775....

Help with Steemit chat please!

Howdy! I was hoping to check out Steemit chat and have been having difficulties getting in. I tried to sign up on Friday, putting in my name, email, and a new p...

Founding Father Quote of the Day - January 22 (#2)

.jpg) "This country, which has given to the world the example of physical liberty, owes to it that of moral emancipation also. For, as yet, it is but nominal wi...

Founding Father Quote of the Day - January 22

"All the states but our own are sensible that knolege is power." - Thomas Jefferson, January 22, 1820....

Founding Father Quote of the Day - January 21 (#2)

.jpg) "How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!" - Samuel Adams, January 21, 1776....