Really Good Writing

Several of my favorite blogs had the same idea today, but this is such excellent writing, I couldn’t resist posting it also.  I thought about it all day, but ultimately decided I’m going to run the risk of seeming a copycat.

This is written in Thomas Jefferson’s handwriting and the corrections are by Benjamin Franklin.  Doesn’t that make you a little tingley?  Giddy?  It does me.

It was Mark Twain that said, “The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning-bug” and, wow, did Mr. Jefferson use excellent, powerful words.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…..”

Powerful words indeed.