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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

God Bless America!


CELEBRATING 236 YEARS!

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- The Declaration of Independence

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   Happy Birthday to the United States of America!  And very much hoping that it truly is a case of " God Bless America."

  So while every country and every culture has made, and presumably will continue to make, contributions to the world, it remains the case - or at least is an aspiration for America to be, as Ronald Reagan phrased it "a shining city upon a hill"


   Or as Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense in 1776: "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind."     Common Sense



1 comment:

Mr Harragan said...

The 'city on the hill comment' dates back well before Reagan nicked it - 1630, John Winthrop, a puritan, referring to what would become Boston.
Just so's you know, not making any point... :-)