Happy 4th of July!

No actual food today, just food for thought.

Today I give thanks for all those who came before me to prepare the way so that we might be able to enjoy all the freedoms we cherish today.


I'll leave you with a quotes to ponder~

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!  Thomas Jefferson

It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.  – John Adams

 I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth

– John Adams

The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society. – Roger Sherman

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.– Thomas Paine

Give me liberty or give me death!

- Patrick Henry

I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these states. Yet through all the gloom I see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth all the means. This is our day of deliverance.  

John Adams (1735–1826)

Equal and exact justice to all men... freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us.    -

Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men(&women) 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

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)