The Man Who Gave Us America.....
He wrote a revolutionary document with the express intention of explaining why a colony an ocean away from the sovereign state was going "to dissolve political bands which have connected them with another..." In doing so, he defined a new world order, a world where "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Of course, I am speaking of Thomas Jefferson. With the Fourth of July looming just ahead, it's a good time to take a look at the remarkable American who gave us The Declaration of Independence while a rebellious British subject - and the Louisiana Territories as the president of a new nation. Jefferson is our Plato - our philosopher king - the man who viewed the world from high on his mountaintop perch at Monticello. President Kennedy once told an assembly of Nobel laureates that it w...