Saturday, July 04, 2020

 

Happy Independence Day



Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, also died on this day in 1826.


Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Jefferson (Washington,
National Gallery of Art, accession number 1986.711)


John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence
(Washington, United States Capitol)


Thomas Jefferson with George Washington, Abraham
Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt on Mount Rushmore

Abraham Lincoln, letter to Henry L. Pierce and others (April 6, 1859):
All honor to Jefferson—to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression.

Statue of Thomas Jefferson (Portland, Oregon)



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