"Our Bicentennial [of Indepdence] is the happy birthday of all fifty States, a commonwealth, and self-governing territories. It is not just a celebration for the original Thirteen Colonies. . . . The earliest English settlers carried the Bible and Blackstone’s Commentary. . . . [and] American families in prairie schooners like these took with them on the overland trails the principles of equality and the God-given rights of the Declaration of Independence."
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Gerald Ford, Gerald R. Ford: “Remarks in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,” American Presidency Project, July 4, 1976
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