John Adams
Thomas Jefferson,
Ben Franklin
Abe Lincoln
Ronald Reagan
Teddy Roosevelt
George Washington
Thomas Edison
John Ford
I leave the last one blank, you can add your own to the list.
Well, that’s beyond the Founders, but no problem. Not a bad list. And, did you mean John Ford or Henry Ford?
Top o’ the Fourth to ye, mware!
‘Tis true that many have since expanded on the vision of the Founders, and yours is a good list. It is extraordinary by any measure what these men of the 18th c. did allowing all others to build on. This Republic, if we can keep it, is forever in their debt.
I have a special place in my heart for G. Mason. If you read Mason’s Virginia Declaration of Rights, it’s not hard to see where the Declaration of Independence is drawn from. Mason wrote it the year before 1776, as I recall.
When next you come to this sainted parish, if time permits, would like to take you to the Mason Memorial on the Mall and/or to his estate that is relatively close to Mount Vernon. It is said that Mason’s refusal to sign the Bill of Rights created a scism in the long time friendship with his neighbor, GW.