HAPPY JULY 4TH!!!
Today we take a break from Personal Finance and enjoy the festivities of the holiday.
John Adams was a prophet back on July 2nd, 1776 in describing how we would celebrate the signing of The Declaration of Independence. However he was two days off at the time:
“The Second Day of July 1776 will be the most memorable Epocha in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding Generations as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade with Shews Games Sports Guns Bells Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction even altho We should rue it which I trust in God We shall not. The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family 17621784 Harvard University Press 1975 142 .”
― John Adams
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