Word: jeffersons
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However, if Robertson really looked at the lessons of the past, he would recognize what every grade schooler is taught: that the earliest Americans often came to this land to escape religious persecution. Our founders, from George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, enshrined the principles of a secular state into our Constitution. Indeed, it was Jefferson who first discussed the "wall of separation" between church and state...
...Jefferson once wrote, "There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.'' As one who has received so much from his country, I feel that debt heavily, and I can never be entirely free of it. My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given to us, as we continue our American journey together...
...lawyers working on Whitewater were relieved last week when the 21-count felony indictment of Tucker and former Clinton business partners Susan and James McDougal didn't mention the Clintons-or Whitewater-at all. Starr hammered the point home: "The indictment does not charge criminal wrongdoing by President William Jefferson Clinton or First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton." To White House officials, this was vindication: Starr, they believe, has accepted their contention that the Whitewater mess was only one small scam in a host of shady deals by Jim McDougal...
ONCE AGAIN TIME HAS FAILED TO PRESENT anything approaching an objective view of the proceedings in our nation's capital. Robert Hughes' rantings about the Republican assault on the "arts" is more liberal drivel. To equate the pseudo art funded by the National Endowment for the Arts with Thomas Jefferson's library or the Lincoln Memorial shows clearly the inability of the left to discriminate between junk and true greatness. DOUG KLASSEN Tempe, Arizona AOL: Ferd94...
...existence without federal intrusion into the arts and humanities. That tradition has produced a formidable cultural heritage--Mark Twain, Eugene O'Neill, George Gershwin, James Whistler, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, to name but a few. It is time to restore that tradition. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself...