Adam Barth

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Ad Astra Per Aspera.

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"All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage." - William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation

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“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested.” - Thomas Paine, Feb 14, 1776

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Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

From battlefields and memorials to parks and protected landscapes, the places cared for by the National Park Service help bring our shared history to life.

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Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! 

The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.

LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.

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Independence has been declared, the population is learning about the document, but there is a general sense of: “now, what shall we do?”

It is true that the United Colonies or United States or whatever this nation is called is unilaterally independent, but her parent nation shall not release her easily.

The Declaration of Independence is signed - but the battle has only just begun.

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Thomas Jefferson submits the final draft of his Declaration of Independence to Continental Congress.

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Thomas Paine publishes an open letter in the Pennsylvania Evening Post, under the name “Republicus,” which advocates for the name “United States of America” for the new nation now emerging.

This is the first time such a term has been used.

[Adam Barth @Adamb218]

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.” - C.S. Lewis "Hope" 1952

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"if a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be." -Thomas Jefferson, Jan 6, 1816

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"Liberation! It is remarkable how persistent human criminal instincts are! I use deliberately the word criminal for freedom and crime are as closely related... If human liberty is equal to Zero, man does not commit any crime. That is clear. The way to rid man of criminality is to rid him of freedom." - WE, Yevgeny Zamyatin

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"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph." -Theodore Roosevelt, 1899

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"I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States.—Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not". -John Adam, July 3 1776

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"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." - GK Chesterton

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"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." - GK Chesterton

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"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die." -GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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"They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and no animal. That's the mistake we made when Darwin showed up. We embraced him and Huxley and Freud, all smiles. And then we discovered that Darwin and our religions didn't mix. Or at least we didn't think they did. We were fools. We tried to budge Darwin and Huxley and Freud. They wouldn't move very well. So, like idiots, we tried knocking down religion. We succeeded pretty well. We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated outflinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answer to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were and still are lost people."
-The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

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"They were all alone. Their voices had died like echoes of the words of God spoken and vibrating in the starred deep." - Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

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"They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves." - Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

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"It is good to renew one's wonder", said the philosopher. "Space travel has again made children of us all". - Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles