{"id":41607,"date":"2019-07-04T10:32:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T17:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=41607"},"modified":"2019-07-04T10:32:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T17:32:30","slug":"three-quotes-for-the-fourth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/04\/three-quotes-for-the-fourth\/","title":{"rendered":"Three quotes for the Fourth"},"content":{"rendered":"

These quotes came in this morning via email from the outstanding LibertyTree.ca<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I don’t agree with all the sentiments, and alas I don’t believe the speakers or writers of the words always agreed with themselves, either. Two of them were, after all, politicians and one of them made government bigger and meaner than it already was. Still … Happy Independence (what’s left of it) Day.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

“No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshiped.”
\n— Calvin Coolidge
\n(1872-1933) 30th US President
\nhttp:\/\/libertytree.ca\/quotes\/Calvin.Coolidge.Quote.45C4<\/p>\n

“Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people. We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should. Happy Fourth of July.”
\n— Ronald Reagan
\n(1911-2004) 40th US President
\nSource: Independence Day, 1981
\nhttp:\/\/libertytree.ca\/quotes\/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.CA1C<\/p>\n

“Every culture and every religion of what we call the civilized world carries, in one form or another, a mythos or story about a time in the past or future when humans lived or will live in peace and harmony. Whether it’s referred to as Valhalla or Eden, Shambala or ‘A Thousand Years of Peace,’ the Satya Yuga or Jannat, stories of past or coming times of paradise go hand-in-hand with hierarchical cultures. Such prophecies were clearly in the minds of America’s Founders when they first discussed integrating Greek ideas of democracy, Roman notions of a republic, Masonic utopian ideals, and the Iroquois Federation’s constitutionally organized egalitarian society, which was known to Jefferson, Washington, Adams, and Franklin. The creation of the United States of America brought into the world a dramatic new experiment in how people could live together in a modern state.”
\n— Thom Hartmann
\nSource: Unequal Protection: The rise of corporate dominance and theft of human rights, by Thom Hartmann
\nhttp:\/\/libertytree.ca\/quotes\/Thom.Hartmann.Quote.3716<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These quotes came in this morning via email from the outstanding LibertyTree.ca. I don’t agree with all the sentiments, and alas I don’t believe the speakers or writers of the words always agreed with themselves, either. Two of them were, after all, politicians and one of them made government bigger and meaner than it already was. Still … Happy Independence (what’s left of it) Day. —– “No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding…<\/p>\n

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