I think the Declaration of Independence is perhaps the greatest document ever written. The US Constitution isn't too shabby either. The ideas espoused in it....they are nothing short of amazing. Sure, the grievances seem petty...and racist to some progressives now. But, the spirit of 76 was really the product of a process that had been percolating for a very long time, the idea that the ultimate goal was freedom from tyranny. We've somehow lost that value. It has been supplanted with fear of offending, public safety, and Neo-Marxism. We also fail to see when government slowly encroaches on it. Like Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars assuming temporary emergency power, you never get it back but through bloody revolution. Thomas Jefferson said that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." Patrick Henry
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