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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson

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@johndickinson Jul 4, 2018, 10:44 PM UTC

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, Massachusetts. This was his reply: "T…

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@johndickinson Jul 4, 2018, 10:31 PM UTC

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. with the few co-signers who still liv…

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@johndickinson Jul 2, 2018, 8:41 PM UTC

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 Generations, as the great anniversary Festiva…

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@johndickinson Feb 11, 2018, 5:25 PM UTC

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

"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 recalling it within the pale of truth. Withi…

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@johndickinson Feb 11, 2018, 5:17 PM UTC

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 of an interested aristocracy of pr…

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@johndickinson Feb 9, 2018, 8:36 PM UTC

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 established by the government and alterable by…

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@johndickinson Feb 8, 2018, 8:27 PM UTC

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.

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@johndickinson Feb 7, 2018, 8:03 PM UTC

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, & those of a nature less liable to be sur…

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@johndickinson Jan 27, 2018, 7:40 PM UTC

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

"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, when he presents himself to give his vote; this…

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@johndickinson Jan 27, 2018, 7:34 PM UTC

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

"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 arms. I did not suppose any part of the US.…

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