Published on Tuesday, July 1, 2014 by Steve So this week, with Independence Day upon us, would be a good time to reflect on Filippo Mazzei, good friend and neighbor of Thomas Jefferson and the inspiration for the pivotal phrase "All Men Are Created Equal." Historians believe Jefferson "borrowed" the phrase from Mazzei who wrote in The Virginia Gazzette in 1774: “All men are by nature equally free and in...