Quote of the Day (Pauline Maier, on the Declaration’s Continued Vitality)

“The vitality of the Declaration of Independence rests upon the readiness of the people and their leaders to discuss its implications and to make the crooked ways straight, not in the mummified paper curiosities lying in state at the Archives; in the ritual of politics, not in the worship of false gods who are at odds with our eighteenth-century origins and who war against our capacity, together, to define and realize right and justice in our time.”—Pauline Maier, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997)