James Madison <br> September 17

“They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society. They reared the fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe.”

Martin Luther King Jr. <br> September 15

“What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice embodied in the Declaration of Independence, extended to us?”

Fredrick Douglass <br> September 15

“What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice embodied in the Declaration of Independence, extended to us?”

Abraham Lincoln <br> September 15

“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

John Marshall <br> September 12

“It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it…”

John Adams <br> September 11

“Yesterday, the greatest Question, which was ever debated in America, and a greater perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men.”