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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/07/the-eternal-meaning-of-independence-day-2-4.php

About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

-Calvin Coolidge on the Declaration of Independence


34 posted on 07/08/2018 1:22:45 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
That post of yours deserves more than I can express by simply typing stuff. Thank You.

What an awesome response by Calvin Coolidge to the sort of doubts this old delusional supreme court aberration of blind justice has been since day one. Her efforts towards a completely ridiculous reasoning to destroy a simple understanding of who we are as a people are exposed by a great President who we simply do not celebrate enough.

82 posted on 07/08/2018 3:48:21 PM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan?
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