Dear Editor,
John Adams pressed the Second Continental Congress toward the break with England. He nominated George Washington to lead the armies that would fight for independence and tapped Jefferson to draft the document that declared it.
“Facts are stubborn things,” honest John Adams wrote. We knew these facts at our origin. Our religious freedom secures our right to state these facts, freely and without fear. As the Library of Congress has noted of our origins:
The first national government of the United States, was convinced that the “public prosperity” of a society depended on the vitality of its religion. Nothing less than a “spirit of universal reformation among all ranks and degrees of our citizens,” Congress declared to the American people, would “make us a holy, that so we may be a happy people.”
Today’s a good day to reflect on these enduring Self-Evident Truths of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We can remember Sam Adams’s prophetic words, too:
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
We can declare our own Independence — from those vain and aspiring men whose words mean whatever they want them to mean. And we can emancipate ourselves from the overly and overtly politically correct nostrums of today. Independent we can remain. John Adams’s last words of encouragement for a long ago Fourth of July were: “Independence Forever!”
Mrs. Dawna Lee
About Tom White
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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