Those who risked it all for liberty

Thomas Jefferson who put his soul into the Declaration of Independence. (Painting by Rembrandt Peale, 1800),

Looking Back – Those who risked it all for liberty

“When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.”

So begins the Declaration of Independence, our most sacred and revered national document.