Thomas Jefferson wrote many letters to John Adams about government, liberty, and England’s corruption under King George III. Jefferson once put his disgust plainly: “It has been a strong reason with me for wishing there was an ocean of fire between that island and us.”Earlier in their political careers, Adams had chosen Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson then penned a sentence that became the greatest line of revolutionary fire ever written, separating freedom from tyranny as clearly as any ocean of fire could.With one line, the tyranny present throughout human history was turned upside down. Humanity knew real liberty in a new and enduring way.During the classical era, pharaohs claimed godhood and treated their people as lesser beings, fit only for slavery and submission. Godhood placed the pharaoh and his ministers above the humanity beneath them.But in the land of Goshen lived the tribes of Israel. Freed by Moses, they came to camp in the shadow of Mount Sinai, where they received the Ten Commandments — the law of God on earth, demanding obedience from kings, priests, and commoners alike.Centuries later, democracies emerged along the Hellenic coasts of Greece, while the Roman Republic arose on the Italian peninsula. These societies were imperfect but freer than the empires around them.In Greece, that freedom lasted until Philip II of Macedon devoured the city-states and left an empire to his son Alexander. After conquering Egypt, Alexander demanded to be known as the “son of Amon,” claiming the aura of godhood and exerting a tyranny like that of the pharaohs.In Rome, the republic endured for nearly 500 years before falling to imperial rule. The Julio-Claudian line eventually produced Caligula, who demanded to be adored as a god in the Temple of Solomon itself. Thus came the tyranny of the Caesars.In medieval Europe, kings could not claim to be gods. But they could claim to be anointed by God, placing their crowns above ordinary men as surely as the stars appear above the sea.King John of England ruled through vis et voluntas — force and will. The rapacity of his will and the weakness of his rule led to Magna Carta in 1215, the first great liberating document written in Europe since the Roman Republic.A descendant of King John, Henry VIII, placed in his own person the powers of king and head of the church. He claimed to rule by divine right. The kings who followed asserted the same claim: that all beneath the sun was beneath them by God’s will.So it is that the history of humanity is, in large part, the history of tyranny.Then a descendant of that line, George III, inspired Jefferson’s line of revolutionary fire: “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.”That sentence means all of us possess the same rights, and no one has a superior right to take them away — no pharaoh, emperor, conqueror, king, queen, or dictator.RELATED: America’s birth defect did not define our destiny Stevanovicigor/Getty ImagesIf our rights are given to us equally by God, then none may rule over us by claiming we are unequal. Among those rights are faith, speech, assembly, and the right to remove from power those who misgovern us.Thus, our government is our servant — never our master.By that one line, the tyranny present throughout human history was turned upside down. Humanity knew real liberty in a new and enduring way.The foremost lesson of history is that tyranny is always with us.In recent history, the murderous Bolsheviks toppled the 300-year empire of the czars, looted and burned churches, and murdered priests. They knew God would never be a socialist Bolshevik, so they placed themselves above God.When Hitler came to power, he sought to eradicate the Jewish people, murdering 6 million Jews. He knew that neither the Jews nor God would join the socialist Nazi Party, so he placed himself above God.In China, Mao Zedong drove the moral center out of his nation through a murderous purge, killing tens of millions of his own people in the name of revolution. Confucius had no place in Mao’s socialist order, so Mao placed himself above God.Such is tyranny in our own time.In America today, democratic socialists attack the faith of our Jewish neighbors and fellow citizens. They seek the removal of the Ten Commandments from schools and public squares. They attack Christianity and Western civilization. They insist that our nation under God is evil and must be remade.It is socialism in America that must be defeated.As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the greatest sentence ever written in the history of freedom, let us hold fast to God, the creator and guarantor of our rights.Let us hold fast to that line of revolutionary fire with a will of steel — for the sake of all our liberties.

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida said the congressional oversight committee should investigate the Patriot Front group after its march on the Fourth of July.Masked members of the white supremacist group marched through Washington, D.C., and at one point were photographed surrounding a black woman on public transit.'There are plenty of things that I see that I might personally find offensive, reprehensible, but in America, free speech is allowed.'On Monday, Luna said the group should finally be investigated."What I find odd about Patriot Front is how under Biden they were never investigated," she wrote in a statement on social media Monday."Well funded. Never investigated," she added. "FBI under Biden looked into Catholics instead. So, looks like [the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform] should do some digging.About 400 members of the group marched through D.C. on Saturday, and some carried the U.S. flag upside down to signify distress.Interior Secretary Doug Burgum defended the group's right to free speech on CNN's "State of the Union.""Certainly what they stand for is nothing that I could possibly agree with," Burgum said, "but one of the foundational principles of the United States, which makes democracy messy, is free speech, and there are plenty of things that I see that I might personally find offensive, reprehensible, but in America, free speech is allowed, and this is by the whole spectrum of things."RELATED: 'You have to be completely out of your f**king mind': Eric Adams rips into Mamdani aide over white supremacist comment Burgum would not commit to advise President Donald Trump to condemn the demonstration.Luna is the chair of the committee's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Veteran political strategist Donna Brazile faced fierce criticism after her response to sexual assault allegations against Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner.Platner has faced a damaging series of scandals, but the latest allegations are leading many Democrats to rescind their endorsements and call for him to step down.'He's got a pattern of abusing women and you're empathizing with him?'While Brazile did call for Platner to be replaced, she also said he needed time to heal."It's time for Mr. Platner to step aside and be replaced," she wrote in a post on social media. "Platner needs time to heal, focus on his family and well-being. Enough. Enough," she continued.Her strange reaction was lambasted by critics online."Why does he need 'time to heal' from assaulting women?" one user responded. "So your main concern here is the mental health and well-being of the accused rapist? Interesting you didn't say anything about his victim," another reply reads. "Wait a minute. Platner's accused of sexual assault, and HE needs 'time to heal'?? It sounds like he needs time to chill behind bars!" another user said."Heal from what? He's got a pattern of abusing women and you're empathizing with him?" another user replied. "The time for Platner to heal will be after his ironically named cellmate Tiny, who is also a sexual reprobate, is done with him," another user joked.Politico first reported the allegations of rape by a woman who dated Platner nearly five years ago. RELATED: 'Should be nowhere near Congress': Even 'The View' thinks Platner is a TERRIBLE candidate Platner was also accused of sending sexually explicit messages to women while he was still married to his wife. If Platner chooses to step down from the campaign, it would severely deflate Democrats' hopes of wresting away control of the U.S. Senate from Republicans. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

In a massive win for women’s sports, this week the Supreme Court ruled that states have the authority to maintain sports teams based on biological sex — upholding laws in West Virginia and Idaho.But the decision comes after young girls have already been traumatized.“It was really her eighth-grade season when things started to get worse. She was coming home increasingly frustrated, telling us about mean and then sexually inappropriate things that this boy was saying to her,” a mother whose daughter was forced to play alongside a boy recalled in an interview.“One day she came home and told me that he was telling her and other girls to ‘Suck my D-word.’ This was happening frequently during track practice and in the locker room from a boy who was saying he was a girl,” she continued.“So this was really shocking and alarming to us,” she added.“What did you do at that point?” the interviewer asked.“We had a coach reach out to us, actually, that same day to tell us that Adelaia had lost her competition spot to this boy, and she wanted to let us know that she felt it was unfair. So we told her about the inappropriate comments and surprisingly, to us, she said that she had also heard him say many inappropriate things,” the mother replied.The mother also explained that this boy had been asking the girls for nude photographs during track meets and taking “other inappropriate actions towards boys and girls during the season.”The coach also had a daughter on the team and told Adelaia’s mother that she was “deeply concerned” but “couldn’t say anything for fear of losing her job.”“So after this conversation, I was so alarmed. I spoke about it with Adelaia and told her that I felt the situation had become unsafe for her and the other girls. And I’ll never forget, she said to me after that, ‘Mom, that’s not the worst thing PJ has ever said to me,’” the mother explained.“I just felt sick as I read that he had said to her, ‘I’m going to stick my D-word in your P-word,’” she added.“My gosh,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray says, disturbed.“They know that he’s doing it, and it doesn’t matter, because heaven forbid they say anything about a boy who identifies as a girl,” he adds.Want more from Pat Gray?To enjoy more of Pat's biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner's campaign is in hot water again after new allegations of sexual misconduct were reported Monday. Now his campaign against Susan Collins hangs by a very thin thread.Platner issued a two-minute video response on Monday afternoon in light of a new report from Politico. In the report a woman, described as someone who once dated Platner, accused him of "sexual assault."'Graham Platner should drop out from the race. I am withdrawing my endorsement.'In the video, Platner denied the allegations against him, calling them "troubling, serious, and false," adding that "any accusation of nonconsensual behavior is categorically false." The progressive Democrat spent the beginning of the video praising the movement his candidacy built and "the largest volunteer base in the history of Maine politics," fueled by "a focus on defeating Susan Collins."Noting the seriousness of the allegations, however, Platner then made a remark that had some viewers asking questions about the future of his campaign: "So, regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting but mindful of the political reality it will inflict, we are taking time to reflect on the best path forward for the state that I love, the people that I love, the movement I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins."While no definitive statement about the future of his campaign was given in his response, Platner did, however, promise to keep fighting for the base of supporters he amassed over the duration of his campaign.RELATED: Democrats close ranks around Graham Platner despite string of scandals David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images"On June 9, 154,058 Mainers — the most in primary history — voted to reject a broken politics beholden to Washington and the donor class. They voted for hope, for change, to take back our economy, to take back our power, and to take back our Senate seat," Platner said in the video."Every one of you deserves to see that vision come to fruition and see Susan Collins defeated. And we will use every tool at our disposal to do so," he added. "As Maine goes, so goes the nation." While Platner is not himself officially a part of the far-left Democratic Socialists of America, which has seen some success in recent primaries across the country, his progressive platform may appear to resemble the more radical wing of the party. While some notable figures have expressed their skepticism of Platner, one Democrat leader has stuck with him through the multiple scandals that have arisen during his campaign. Steve Guest posted a clip of a press conference earlier this year with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer being asked about Graham Platner and the explanations he has given for the past allegations. Schumer gave a consistent answer, explicitly saying, "I endorsed Graham Platner," and said they will defeat Susan Collins and "take back the Senate." The clip shows Schumer's apparent preference for Platner over establishment Democrat candidate Janet Mills, who suspended her campaign at the end of April. Graham Platner handily won the June 9 primary and will face Collins in November, if his campaign continues. Hours later, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who previously supported Platner's campaign, released a statement on social media: "I've been very clear that sexual assault or violence against women is a red line. These allegations are very serious and credible. Graham Platner should drop out from the race. I am withdrawing my endorsement."Blaze News contacted Rep. Ro Khanna and Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), John Fetterman (D-Penn.), and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) but did not immediately receive a response. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!