Happy
Fourth of July from AdvanceUSA! This
Independence Day, take the time to read the definitive statement of what
the American experiment is all about.
As
our nation prepares to celebrate the publication of this founding document, Rich
Lowry’s recent column on the significance of Thomas Jefferson’s composition
is especially apt. Excerpts:
But Jefferson’s words were more than
rhetorical theatrics; they laid the philosophical bedrock of the American
republic. In the space of three magnificent sentences in its preamble, the
Declaration packs enough content to fill volumes of treatises on political
theory.
…
“All honor to Jefferson,” Lincoln once
proclaimed, “to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for
national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and
capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth,
and so to embalm it there, that today and in all coming days, it shall be a
rebuke and a stumbling block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and
oppression.” Amen.