We hope you and your family have a happy and safe Independence Day! July 5, 1926, President Coolidge delivered an extraordinary address celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It is will worth reading in its entirety . Here is an excerpt:   They preached equality because they believed in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. They justified freedom by the text that we are all created in the divine image, all partakers of the divine spirit. Placing every man on a plane where he acknowledged no superiors, where no one possessed any right to rule over him, he must inevitably choose his own rulers through a system of self-government. This was their theory of democracy. In those days such doctrines would scarcely have been permitted to flourish and spread in any other country. This was the purpose which the fathers cherished. In order that they might have freedom to express these thoughts and opportunity to put them into action, whole cong...