240TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY

Today, we celebrate the 240^th American Independence Day (July 4, 1776). Let us also not forget Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. (July 4, 1826)

  

Thomas Jefferson

[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.jeffersonquotes.com/2012/04/when-injustice-becomes-law.html]

QUOTE: “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”

AUTHOR: Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 O.S.) – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809).