Happy Independence Day! As Thomas Jefferson wrote: "May it [American Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be...the signal of arousing men to burst the chains and to assume the blessings and security of self-government... That form, which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion... For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undimished devotion to them."