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I live in a country founded on words. Well, really on ideas. But ideas can’t come to fruition without the right words.
If you doubt the importance of words, read the words of the Declaration of Independence.
Words are important. Don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise.
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1 Anonymous // Jul 4, 2007 at
A Country Founded on Words…
How important are words? Could they make a lasting difference? Read this short piece on the relationship between words and ideas and decide for yourself….
2 betshopboy // Jul 4, 2007 at
Hi Laura
Wish you and your family a HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
3 Lillie Ammann // Jul 4, 2007 at
Spring House, the book I edited for David Bowles, is genealogically and historically accurate based on extensive research, but David wrote the story as fiction to be able to include dialogue. He has a great scene in the book where one of the characters, a friend of Patrick Henry who was very involved in the Revolution, reads a copy of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, the pamphlet that is credited with starting the revolution, to an uneducated barmaid. She is moved to tears by the words – another testament to the power of words.
4 Joanna Young // Jul 4, 2007 at
Hello Laura
I hope you’re enjoying the holiday.
I agree with you (of course!)
Words are so important, have so much power. We all need to take responsibility for the way that we use words, for using the power of words to create the kind of society, the community, the nation, the world that we want to live in 🙂
Joanna
5 Lori // Jul 5, 2007 at
Thanks for reminding everyone that words can excite, enrage, inspire and intrigue. Even if John Locke’s words were pretty much taken verbatim for the Declaration, it’s still a very powerful document.
6 Laura // Jul 5, 2007 at
Hi Betshopboy! Thanks for stopping by.
Hi Lillie! It sounds like an interesting book that you are editing.
Hi Joanna! You bring up an important point about responsibility.
Hi Lori! You are right. Words can excite, enrage, inspire, and intrigue. People don’t choose their words carefully enough.
7 Bloggrrl // Jul 5, 2007 at
No kidding! If more people read the Constitution, this country would be a different place.
8 Laura // Jul 5, 2007 at
Welcome Bloggrrl! Yes, we are surprisingly illiterate about our own history.
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