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  • Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

    John Quincy Adams; Speech on Independence Day in Newburyport, Massachusetts, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 4, 1837.
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