Sunday, July 5, 2009

Spirit of '76

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
--Thomas Jefferson

Two hundred and thirty two years ago yesterday Thomas Jefferson's document declaring our independence was ratified. One does have to wonder how the Founders would react if, through some divine intervention, they were able walk the country today.

Perhaps Thomas Paine would respond like this.

Unfortunately, such Common Sense is much less common today than it was 200 yrs ago.
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2 comments:

OSR said...

If the founding fathers saw the present, I expect that they would say, "We risked our necks for this??!?"

July 6, 2009 at 7:41 AM
fordmw said...

Yeah, me too.

I also visualize, say, Jefferson turning to Madison and saying, 'see, I told you this is what might happen.'

July 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM

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