Posted on 07/04/2023 12:24:51 PM PDT by bitt
THE ETERNAL MEANING OF INDEPENDENCE DAY (2)
President Calvin Coolidge celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1926, with a speech providing a magisterial review of the history and thought underlying the Declaration. His speech on the occasion deserves to be read and studied in its entirety. The following paragraph, however, is particularly relevant to the challenge that confronts us in the variants of the progressive dogma that pass themselves off today as the higher wisdom:
"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.
(Posted annually since 2004.)
H/T Keflavik76
I just saw something that even 5 years ago would have made my heart swell with pride.
Today, it actually worries or even scares me.
I saw two F15s flying very low over NW Cochise county. The first ones I have seen in 4 or 5 years.
My first thought(s) was not pride, but was the regime going after some group they deem subversive?
Or was it just a show of strength to warn the citizens of what they have to go against any AR15s.
Silent Cal does not get much attention in the History Books. He had no grand collectivist plan on how he was going to transform America. Just did his job keeping us free.
Happy true ‘Insurrection’ Day! Our founders did not run to another country, they changed their own and preferred “Dangerous Freedom, to Peaceful Slavery”.(Jefferson, I think)
Another Coolidge fave:
When asked if he would speak at a fair, he replied: “No, I am just going as an exhibit.”
Didn’t Limbaugh’s grandfather have a written panegyric for Independence Day?
Bumpity
Ya’ll might try this. My cover article in World Magazine.
https://wng.org/articles/an-exception-to-the-rule-1687927257
This is a great article, thank you for posting.
Thank you.
It’s basically the introduction from “Patriot’s History of the United States” where we introduced the idea.
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