Founding Issues
Independence
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"If we mean to support the liberty and independence, which it has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach."
- United States Founding Father, George Washington, "Maxims of Washington", John Frederick Schroeder, D.D., collector and arranger, 1854, p.25
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"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were ... the general principles of Christianity. ... I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God."
- United States Founding Father, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson", (Washington D.C.: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904), Vol. XIII, P. 292-294. In a letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson on June 28, 1813
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"Why is it that next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the 4th of July]? Is is not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That is laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?"
- United States Founding Father, John Quincy Adams, John Quincy Adams, "An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport at their Request on the Sixty-First Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence", July 4, 1837, (Newburyport: Charles Whipple, 1837), p. 5
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"To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." - United States Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816
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