Tha Agnostic Patriot — Independence Day

We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. -Benjamin Franklin, Freedom Fighter
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. -Martin Luther King, Jr., Freedom Fighter
Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms. -Rudolf Carnap, Philosopher
A clash of doctrines is not a disaster—it is an opportunity. -Alfred North Whitehead, Philosopher
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. -Rumi, Mystic
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. – Rene Descartes, Philosopher
A house divided against itself cannot stand. -Abraham Lincoln, President
Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. -Albert Einstein, Scientist
Be the change you want to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi, Freedom Fighter

- July 4, 2016 -

Independence Day, 2016

These are the times that try men’s souls. — Thomas Paine, January 1776 Six months after Thomas Paine’s Common Sense brought these words to the American public, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and 53 other founders Read more »

- July 4, 2015 -

Independence Day, 2015

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Declaration of Read more »

- July 4, 2013 -

Independence Day, 2013

Two hundred thirty seven years ago 56 men pledged their life, liberty and sacred honor to give birth to a new nation, a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created Read more »

- July 4, 2012 -

Independence Day, 2012

In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, On July 1, 1776—on a hot and humid summer day—in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, John Adams of Massachusetts was locked in debate with Read more »

- July 4, 2011 -

Independence Day, 2011

You give the appearance of one widely traveled, I’ll bet you’ve seen things in your time. So sit down beside me and tell me your story, If you think you’ll like yesterday’s wine. Willie Nelson According to Read more »

- July 4, 2010 -

Independence Day, 2010

“We are in the very midst of revolution, the most complete, unexpected, and remarkable of any in the history of the world.” John Adams July, 1776 The Fourth of July parade. Oil City, Pennsylvania. A lot of Read more »

- July 4, 2009 -

Independence Day, 2009

Great oaks from tiny acorns grow. In most of the world the sun rose on the morning of July 4, 1776 much as it had risen the day before and much as it would rise the day Read more »

- July 4, 2008 -

Independence Day, 2008

We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial. What will be the consequence, I know not. John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1774 It was a cold winter day in January, 1776 when John Adams left Read more »

- July 4, 2007 -

Independence Day, 2007

E Pluribus Unum From Many, One Two hundred thirty one years ago 56 Patriots pledged their lives, liberties and sacred honor to the vision that we, their descendants, might partake of the blessings of liberty. Twenty-four were Read more »

- July 4, 2006 -