Posted on 07/04/2006 5:40:04 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
"Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof - Lev. XXV, v. X"
Inscription on the Liberty Bell, from Leviticus 25:10
Reference: TK
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"Thomas Jefferson still lives."
-- John Adams (after waking momentarily, afternoon July 4 1826)
Reference: The Works of John Adams, C.F. Adams, ed., vol. 1 (636)
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"Is it the Fourth?"
-- Thomas Jefferson (evening July 3; Jefferson died the next morning, July 4th 1826)
Reference: Thomas Jefferson: A Life, Randal (594)
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