Fourth of July
“May (July 4) be to the world, what I believe it will be — to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all — the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form (of government) which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.â€
-Thomas Jefferson July 4, 1826
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Thanks for that.
We need those words now, more than ever.
Invoking the light of science over the self perceived “grace of god,” in particular. Words that Jindal needs to become acquainted with.
Thank you for the kind works. Happy 4th of July!
And *that*, my friends, is why certain revisionist history texts ( http://trueslant.com/michaelpreston/2010/03/16/the-texas-textbook-controversy-and-the-failing-american-consensus/ ) downplay the role of Thomas Jefferson.