In the words of Thomas Jefferson:
“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.” (Letter to Thomas Cooper, 29 November 1802)
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John Quincy Adams (the sixth President of the United States):
“Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?” “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity”? (1837, at the age of 69, when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts)
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