Independence Day

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Wishing all a safe and fun holiday, while remembering the Founders/ Framers of our great country. Here's a quote I like:

"The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty. ---Nathaniel Branden
Read more at: The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty. - Nathaniel Branden - BrainyQuote

 

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Great post and history lesson not many know.

 

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"After leaving Washington, Thomas Jefferson spent the last two decades of his life at Monticello. He died on July 4, 1826--hours before his good friend and former political rival John Adams--on the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence"
Writing of Declaration of Independence - American Revolution - HISTORY.com