"Few ideas are correct ones, and what are correct no one can ascertain; but with words we govern men." -- Benjamin Disraeli
Allusions, quotations -- and fake quotations.
Jefferson's library
The text of the Declaration
What makes Americans?
The real Abraham Lincoln on Euclid and the Declaration:
One would start with great confidence that he could convince any sane child that the simpler propositions of Euclid are true; but, nevertheless, he would fail, utterly, with one who should deny the definitions and axioms. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.The movie version (look carefully for a now-famous actor playing one of the soldiers):
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