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From the July 2008 American Speaker issue:
Seasonal Sayings
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Friday, July 4: Independence Day
“[The Continental Congress] ... wanted to put its case before ‘the court of world opinion,’ and needed a dignified and well-argued but ringing and memorable statement of what it was doing and why it was doing it. It also wanted to give the future citizens of America a classic statement of what their country was about, so that their children and their children’s children could study it and learn it by heart ...
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Monday, July 14: Bastille Day
NOTE: Gouverneur Morris served as American minister (equivalent to today’s ambassador) to France in the last days of the Old Regime and the early days of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror that soon followed. As such, he was an eyewitness to many of its events.
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