Monday, July 27, 2015

In urging . . .

In urging the adoption of the United States Constitution, Alexander Hamilton told his fellow New Yorkers “to think continentally.” Today Americans must learn to think inter-continentally. 
Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world; we cannot insure its domestic tranquility, or provide for its common defense, or promote its general welfare, or secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. But joined with other free nations, we can do all this and more.
John F. Kennedy, “Declaration of Interdependence.”  Address at Independence Hall, Philadelphia. July 4th, 1962

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