The Spirit of '76

A painting from the nineteenth century by Archibald M. Willard, depicting three soldiers of the American Revolutionary War . Though one is wounded, they are marching on with spirit and determination.

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Donald Trump is now describing himself as some type of new avatar for the Spirit of '76, Founding Father for the 21st century, a defender of liberty and freedom against tyranny.

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Wyatt recalled a time when vendors were moving records by Ya Ho Wah 13, Father Yod and the Spirit of ’76 and other Family-related recordings for $20 or less because the Source had fallen out of fashion and the sellers “didn’t know what they had.”

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During the war, for example, the producer of a film, “The Spirit of ’76,” was prosecuted under the act and sentenced to prison in 1918 because the government believed the movie undermined the British, a World War I ally, and was therefore seditious, said Mark S. Zaid, a national security lawyer.

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Instead, he saw the French Revolution as the European continuation of the spirit of ’76.

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The very notion of a republican king was a repudiation of the spirit of’76 and a contradiction in terms.

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spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, the The Spirit of St. Louis

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