Posted on 05/26/2025 6:20:49 PM PDT by Rummyfan
"When in the Course of human events..."
I suspect — I hope — everyone reading this recognizes that quotation instantly. Although I'm a little afraid that an American high school graduate, even a college graduate, might not. So for people who have been educated in American public schools in the last couple decades, it's the first seven words of the Declaration of Independence.
The Declaration continues: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable 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..."
We forget how utterly radical this statement was. It asserts as an axiom — akin to stating a circle can have any center and radius — that all human beings, simply by virtue of being human, have rights no government can revoke, any more than a government can repeal gravity. Jefferson and his compatriots had been educated in geometry, logic, and reason in ways that have become unfashionable today.
They then set out to prove themselves right, and fought a war — eventually many wars — to preserve those rights. Another important definition is what constitutes a nation: now, by definition, a nation is a group of people with a shared culture, history, and identity.
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The enemy is not outside the US. It is within
Harvard was established in 1836, well before there was an America, so it isn’t really American.
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