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PROMOTING INTEREST IN YOUR
REVOLUTION
Brother JS has been reading the great American revolutionary
spokesmen and makes this observation:
Talented writers and orators are a major asset. The American colonies
were fortunate to have many. Their words were inspiring and easy
to repeat. As early
Thomas
Paine
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as 1765, Patrick Henry, a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses,
raised the cry, "If this be treason, make the most of it." Thomas
Jefferson, another Virginian, created the Americans' great Declaration
of Independence with his magnificent words on man's inalienable rights.
And when the war seemed nearly lost, in 1776, pamphleteer Thomas Paine
put forth such heartening thoughts as: "What we obtain too cheap,
we esteem too lightly. . . it would be strange indeed if so celestial
an article as Freedom should not be highly rated." |
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