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Rebeccah Heinrichs
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@HudsonInstitute | @ProvMagazine | @AshbrookCenter | Duty to Deter, NIP, 2024
Jun 28 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Little Town on the Prairie,” Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1935:

“The [Fourth of July celebration] crowd was scattering away then, but Laura stood stock still. Suddenly she had a completely new thought. The Declaration and the Song came together in her mind, and she thought: God is America’s king. 1/X “She thought: Americans won’t obey any king on earth. Americans are free. That means they have to obey their own consciences. No king bosses Pa; he has to boss himself. Why (she thought), when I am a little older, Pa and Ma will stop telling me what to do, and there isn’t anyone else to give me orders. I will have to make myself be good. 2/X