Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 7 of the 2022 paperback edition of C. Bradley Thompson’s excellent 2019 book, America’s Revolutionary Mind:

All American revolutionaries believed that there are moral and political truths – truths absolute, certain, universal, permanent, and immutable – that can be known by reason and acted on. Such was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence – to declare certain self-evident truths thought to be accessible to all men everywhere.