July 4, 1776: Sacrificing for Freedom
By: Oliver North
Our founding document, The Declaration of Independence is the most awesome document outside of the Bible ever written in human history. Our founding fathers were extremely wise and very enlightened men who founded an exceptional nation at great personal risk for all and sacrifice as well. The Declaration of Independence acknowledges our creator, recognizes His role in our rights and equality, and appeals to Him for our success and the justness of our cause. America was founded on July 4, 1776.
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Every year on July 4, Americans celebrate a miracle: the founding of the United States of America. Our Declaration of Independence has 1,337 eloquent words, crafted by Thomas Jefferson and the 56 members of the Second Continental Congress. Those words turned the world upside down.
To this day, our Declaration of Independence is the only seminal document of any nation on earth to pay homage to God Almighty. No other founding instrument reflects on "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," nor does any other proclaim all people are "created equal" and "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights."
No other national manuscript appeals to the "Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions." Nor does any such proclamation place the fate of its founders in the hands of God with a prayer: "For the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."
Our Founders' stirring prose, their affirmation of "self-evident," God-given "Truths" and their carefully constructed "bill of particulars" listing 27 tyrannical offenses perpetrated by Britain's monarch are without parallel in justifying independence. And there is more -- the extraordinary assertion: "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed."
In 1776, it was one thing to express these concepts on parchment but quite another to make them reality. Standing in the way of achieving the Founders' vision was the largest, best-equipped and best-trained military land and sea forces in the world. The Americans, on the other hand, had no Army or Navy; just patriots determined to be free.
The reason our country even exists today can be summarized in one word: sacrifice. The Founders and Gen. George Washington's intrepid citizen-soldiers risked everything for freedom.
All 56 visionaries who signed the Declaration of Independence were declared to be traitors to the British crown, tried in-absentia, hunted, hounded and sentenced to death if caught. Fourteen of the signers didn't live to celebrate our victory over the British at Yorktown, Virginia, on Friday, October 19, 1781. By then, Washington's citizen-soldiers endured seven years of starvation, crippling wounds, frostbite, disease, exhaustion and continual defeats, yet persevered to win American independence.
Contrast this with what's happened since Joe Biden became president. Washington and our Founders did everything in their power to build the meager American military. Biden seems determined to tear down our military. Rather than properly funding national defense, Biden proposes major budget cuts and diverting funds to his pet social programs. Instead of ensuring America's soldiers, sailors, airmen, Guardsmen and Marines are the best equipped, best trained troops in the world, Biden and his "progressive" puppet masters are using our military as a laboratory for social experimentation and indoctrination in leftist orthodoxy. Sadly, pension-protecting politicians, masquerading as generals, are going along to get along.
While Communist China is building a navy surpassing ours in both size and capabilities, U.S. military leaders are indoctrinating American troops in critical race theory and supposed "white privilege." Chinese military leaders are equipping and training the largest standing army in the world while U.S. military leaders provide sex reassignment operations to transgender troops at taxpayers' expense. As Chinese Communist officers use extensive budgets to buy influence around the world, U.S.-elected officials are undermining America's credibility by refusing to honor commitments to allies like Afghani interpreters who have faithfully served our nation's military for nearly two decades.
If Biden and his fellow "progressives" were in charge on July 4, 1776, there would never have been a Declaration of Independence and America would still be a British colony.
Oliver L. North is a combat-decorated U.S. Marine, No.1 bestselling author, and founder and CEO of Fidelis Publishing LLC and Fidelis Media LLC. Find out more about him at www.olivernorth.com. David Goetsch is a Marine Corps veteran, member of the Florida Veteran's Hall of Fame, professor of business, Christian counselor, and author of 76 books. Find out more about him at www.david-goetsch.com.
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international drug distributor, arms dealer, war criminal, and traitor for reneging on his oath to defend the Constitution by willfully obeying an alzheimer suffering POTUS.
All false. He’s an American hero. He’s also right about BiDen and today’s democrats. His words about our founding fathers and our Declaration of Independence is spot on and could not have been better said.
Faux Patriots are many of the people who support CRT and the 1619 project. The rest of them are anti Patriots.
Babbling.
That would be your input here, not mine.
Don't forget monumental liar who lied for his boss before their conservative Republican conspiracy all came crumbling down.
"In spite of the wildly speculative and false stories of arms for hostages and alleged ransom payments, we did not—repeat, did not—trade weapons or anything else for hostages, nor will we." - Ronald Reagan November 1986
"A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not." - Ronald Reagan March 1987
I learned then to never trust a conservative Republican, they can lie through their teeth and feel no remorse because they believe they have God on their side so lying for their faith or cause makes it okay, the ends justify the means. What they refuse to acknowledge is this:
“If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities." - Luke 16:10
Oliver North is a great American hero. His words about BiDen and it’s party are so right on. Best of all was his awesomely brilliant defense of the the founding fathers, the Declaration of Independence, and the role of a very real God in our founding as a 1776 nation.
"44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies." - John 8:44
This article is the sort of boiler plate "Go USA!!!!" cheerleading that is a dime a dozen. What this signals to me is that Oliver North is on his last legs as a public figure and is trying to squeeze every dollar and every scrap of recognition out of whatever he's got left.
As if he needs anything at all at this point. Isn’t he like 75 years old and comfortably retired? I like pro America articles and opinion pieces. This one is right on.The points he made about the Declaration of Independence especially appealed to me and was the primary reason I seeded the article. I’m all in on waging an all out culture war on behalf of 1776 and against 1619.
Well xxey, grab yer musket 'n bayonet, hop on yer pony and go git 'em !!!
Why did I get a picture of someone doing the boot scoot boogie...
This is a culture war not a physical one. A battle of ideas and 1619 along with CRT are very bad and evil ideas.
We shall see about that. As a famous revolutionary once said at a dark moment, “I/we have not yet begun to fight!” 1776 commission America is well worth fighting for.
they're just trying to get the trump off their sneakers...
more like chain mail and broad sword...
All the anti patriotic hate America true blue feelings on this thread duly noted.
Our worlds best and longest lasting founding document, The Declaration of Independence is the most wonderfully awesome document outside of the Holy Bible ever written in human history. Our founding fathers were wise and enlightened men who founded for us an exceptional nation at great personal risk for all and collective sacrifice as well. The Declaration of Independence recognizes our creator, credits His role in our rights and equality, and appeals to Him for our success and the justness of our cause. The declaration was as much a prayer to God as it was a listing of grievances against a despot king. Secular progressives hate our founding document.
false. they were free thinking liberals. they included all that thumper claptrap in the document to make it easier to sell to the knuckle dragging thumper morons that made up the vast majority of americans at the time, as opposed to pick up your rifle and go kill redcoats because we don't feel like paying taxes on our distilleries. very few of those formally educated had any real interest in religion. it's usefulness as a tax exempt dark money laundering operation wasn't realized until 200 years later.
All of these educated founders went to religious schools to get their education. It’s sad that you feel as bitter about America and Americans then as you do now.