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Today being the “Patriotic Friday” before the most Patriotic Day of the year, I wanted to share with you two quotes from the very men who had the privilege of brining this country to her feet. One man an original signer and writer of the Declaration. The other man is John Adams son, who worked under the first 5 presidents including his father. The first quote from John Adams lets us peer into one of his thoughts written to his wife Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress. Which by the way was originally presented to Congress on July 2^nd 1776, however some changes were requested, so they presented it again on July 4^th 17776.  The second quote is from John Quincy Adams, shows us the importance placed on our Nations birth from the perspective of a man who had experienced the birth and growth of our Nation, including watching the Battle of Bunker Hill during the Revolutionary War from a hill above his family farm.

John Adams:
“ The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
• “[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”
–John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress

John Quincy Adams:
• “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?" “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity"?
--1837, at the age of 69, when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Over at Cindy’s blog you can read the Declaration of Independence. On Janet’s blog you can read of ways to show and send support to our troops. I also wanted to include the names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. These men took a very brave step of faith in order to secure a free future.

Massachusetts John Hancock Samuel Adams John Adams Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry New Hampshire Josiah Bartlett William Whipple Matthew Thornton Rhode Island Stephen Hopkins William Ellery Georgia Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton

Connecticut Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott New York William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris New Jersey Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross Delaware Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas M' Kean Maryland Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carrol

Virginia George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton North Carolina William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn South Carolina Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward Thomas Lynch Arthur Middleton

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