Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The Words of Our Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson Tuesday--3


"Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely


to surrender that freedom which we received


from our gallant ancestors, and which our


innocent posterity have a right to receive from


us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of


resigning succeeding generations to that


wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if


we basely entail hereditary bondage on them."


--Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking up Arms, 6 July 1775

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