Calvin CoolidgeCalvin Coolidge, (1872-1933) 30th US President

Calvin Coolidge Quote

“No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshiped.”

Calvin CoolidgeCalvin Coolidge
~ Calvin Coolidge


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Mike, Norwalk

WOW ! ! ! AMEN, AND AMEN AND AMEN ! ! ! We hold these truths to be self evident. History repeating itself proves this over and over and over again. The natural law that was recognized within the Declaration of Independence (the law of nature and of nature's God) or that which defines that which is (absolute science, gravity, physics, math, life, liberty, property) supersedes all other claimed forms of tyranny and applications (socialism, Keynesian economics, immorality, etc., etc., etc.).

E Archer, NYC

Another reason I believe every American upon coming of age should be given the choice to sign the Declaration of Independence.  Those that do will have a part in the electing of representatives.  Those that don't will still be treated as children and wards of the State  they would not be eligible for voting on representatives because only a republican form of government is permitted in these Unites States, and our representatives are to be representative of a sovereign people, not would-be subjects of a Crown.  In a free republic, no one is permitted to be a slave  even if they want to be. ;-)

Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown

There is a theory behind this so called Declaration of Independence. Unbiasedly, objectively this declaration was simply a device for separation from unification and responsibility as the daily conventional behavioral habits plainly display.  Honest, decent, independent people of integrity don't accumulate a huge 36 trillion dollar  national debt in which they have no intention to repay.  Socialism is the challenge of socialized behavior to create true independence and responsibility.

Mike,, Norwalk
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Mike,, Norwalk Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown 4/24/25

Sillik, this is normally where I shake my lowered head in disbelief; BUT, your lying word salad here is abnormally false (even for you beyond simple stupid and ignorance). Your plain display observance is twisted beyond recognition. Those that declared their independence chose an existence harmonious to nature's law which would assure individual sovereignty, inalienable rights, liberty, peace, prosperity, love and truth. Such is diametrically opposed to the occupying statist theocracy infesting this land's implementation of enslaving socialism, funny money / debt, and all else that is contrary to the nobility that is the child (children) of Eternity's King.

Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown
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Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown Mike,, Norwalk 4/25/25

Mike,, Norwalk, don't understand too much of you're conveyance as usual.  Unity, unification, unifying is nature's harmonious intent, hence the UNITED STATES  OF AMERICA or UNITED ENGLAND, whatever unites, it all the same to the rational. Mentioning the component of King reminds us however that there, as it turns out, is  not much distinguishing difference with the Presidents, they both appear fueled by the same destructive class based properties. Kings and Presidents, neither appear to enable progress very effectively. We the people rule this country, world, always have, always will.  Voices, not votes, voices of ideas. 

Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown
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Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown 4/25/25

Mike,, Norwalk, a colonial issuance of unification with the parent motherland, would have more effectively fueled appropriate emotions and designs of liberty and tolerance for the colony's slave population and other oppressed, then the declaration of separation as the declaration of "independence" turned out to, in reality, declare.

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