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The Spirit Of American Liberty

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
June
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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I believe the Declaration of Independence valuable not alone because it dxove from our shores a foreign invasión, not aloue beeause it established a government by a written constitution, but because it gave to the spirit of American liberty and American virtue the opportuuity to erect a broad home of constitutional liberty through which prosperity was attained and no tyrant could breathe its atmosphere. Wise as were the fathers who framed our constitution, deeply laid in politiciil wisdom as were its foundations, it would not be worth the paper on which it is written but for the fact that it gave to us the spirit of liberty that has never died in the bosoms oí Americans.-

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Ann Arbor Argus
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