Our FReepathon Independence Day Thread!!

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[trisham]

"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to.
This is the last stand on Earth."

~Ronald Reagan

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[jazusamo]

AMEN to a great post, JimRob!!

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY To All!!

[Lady Jag]

Hi, Onyx! How ya doin?

[RedMDer]

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"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other"

- John Adams, "The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, Charles Francis Adams, ed. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1854), Vol. IX, p. 229, October 11, 1798

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[NormsRevenge]

Happy 236th, America!!

U.S. soldiers cut a cake during U.S. Independence Day celebrations in Kabul July 4, 2012.
REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail

[onyx]

I’m doing all right. How about you? I”d best tell you details in FR mail. PT is going good, but I hate it.

[Lady Jag]

I be distracted today.

It's a lovely one.

[trisham]

"As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it.

The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760–1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington. "

~John Adams

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[trisham]

"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph.
And there's purpose and worth to each and every life".

~Ronald Reagan

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[trisham]

"Around 1870, on Coney Island, German immigrant Charles Feltman began selling sausages in rolls"

source: Wikipedia

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[trisham]

4th of July traditions:

"The famous Macy's fireworks display usually held over the East River in New York City has been televised nationwide on NBC since 1976. In 2009, the fireworks display was returned to the Hudson River for the first time since 2000 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's exploration of that river."

source: Wikipedia

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[trisham]

" "When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights; that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

For the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

~Thomas Jefferson

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[RedMDer]

Yumm. Crabs!

[trisham]

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[RedMDer]

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the
bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will
spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like
in the United States where men were free.

Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
40th president of US

[onyx]

Excellent! I will be later!!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

We got taxation without representation in 1776 ... now we’ve got in in 2012.

[onyx]

ADORABLE!

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Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God
- Thomas Jefferson