The colonies had been in conflict with England for over a year in June of 1776. A Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia on June 7 of that year. Richard Henry Lee from Virginia offered up a resolution with these now famous words:
“Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”
Lee’s words spurred the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. A committee of five was appointed to draft a statement making the case for the colonies, a statement to the world of the intent and the reason behind that intent.
Members of the Committee were John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Robert R. Livingston of New York and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Jefferson took on the task of actually drafting the document as we know it today.
The Continental Congress reconvened on July 1, 1776, and on the following day, the resolution for independence by Lee was adopted by 12 of the 13 colonies, with New York not voting. Minor changes were made to the Jefferson document.
Work on the document continued through July 3 and into the afternoon of July 4, when the Declaration was officially adopted by the Congress. Of the 13 colonies, nine voted in favor of the Declaration, two — Pennsylvania and South Carolina — voted No, Delaware was undecided and New York again abstained.
As we all know, John Hancock, President of the Congress made his signature large enough for King George to read “without his spectacles.”
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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 among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. – Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And 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.
The complete list of those who signed were:
John Hancock (president of the Continental Congress), Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross, Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton.
Check out this link for the sobering fate of many of those who so pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.
Those are the facts about our Declaration of Independence, the history that we as school children have learned since the creation of this great nation that we celebrate, that we love and honor so.
Often we cannot adequately find words to express our own sentiments, let alone those of a nation and successive generations to come, but Jefferson and that Continental Congress did just that.
The words have stood throughout several centuries as a clarion call for freedom, for breaking free of tyranny, for men to put aside their individual causes and join together to battle for the right of every man, woman and child together to become a people united in goal and resolve.
Today as we celebrate, today as we pledge allegiance to a flag that has gone from 13 stars to 50, may we remember not only the sacrifice, but the resolve. May we honor not only the words, but the unity and deeds of our forefathers. May each of us dig deep into our hearts and work out our differences for the betterment of our nation and our children and grandchildren.
Say a prayer for America today. Rekindle hope today. Honor the past by determining the future.
Today we are just Americans; God loving and joyfully visible Americans, honoring our blessed country, its founding and within every moment, each other.
America!
Thank God!
Yes, Sundance. Thank God! 🙏❤️ I am also thankful as can be that President Trump is making the learning of our heritage a priority in schools across the nation. Kids need to know the depth, breadth, and scope of what these mostly young men did.
For Us. To be able to sit here and even have these at times, contentious discussions.
Thank God indeed.
And we adults (me included) have to resume calling the day by its proper name!
Don’t call it the Fourth
By Kevin Finn
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/don_t_call_it_the_fourth.html
As always, it’s Independence Day.
Got it!
The original NO KINGS day was 249 years ago!
Touche’!
Why yes it was! 😂
Happy Birthday America!
In all those grievances is described our administrative state.
Good catch!
Aye, lass.
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.”
This is our own government at present.
re: “all those grievances is described our administrative state.”
Just what I was thinking while reading them too.
Thank God for President Trump. For such a time as this.
“America. It is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.”
~Thomas Wolfe
I KNOW this flight path..it is directly over governors island.
I lived on that island and every single day at formation and revile, I felt the presence OF GOD, ordering me
you have purpose…you will be called upon.
I wait no more.
God Bless America
Are you a Coastie regitiger? Semper Paratus and Happy Independence Day from an aging Coastie Airdale.
I remain prepared, yes.
not retired, repurposed.
Semper Paratus, regitiger!
My former brother in law was a USCG officer (graduate of the Academy at New London CT), stationed at Govs Island as his first billet. My sis and their infant son lived there for 3 yrs. I and my wife visited their several times during the early ’80s. Very cool place….
Coast Guard 2nd Class Boatswain and Search and Rescue Coxswain 1974 -1978.
Search and Rescue was why I joined the Coast Guard an the only thing I wanted to do. Absolutely loved going out when everyone else was head to safe harbor.
God designs each one of us for His purposes, dear regitiger.
Blessed is the man or woman who comes to understand what that purpose is 🙏🏻💕
I walk among true moral giants…and have become a better man from this experience.
make what ought to be.
WHAT IS
God Bless America, the land that I love with my heart and soul..
God Bless the men and women of the United States Coast Guard who I also love with a passion that is far beyond some nostalgic whim. long long before me, the ancient mariners protected this new world because when they lived here, married to its women and realized there was no greater cause than to put boats in the water and save lives and protect borders.
yes, I am and will always remain a man at sea
God Bless America
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2 of my best friends were in the USCG. Shark River NJ. Best to you sir.
We owe those men far more than we can ever repay! Well said Sundance!
I aim to deposited at LEAST my own contributions and CALL upon all others to put forth the one things in the world that really has no price:
do it because it is the right thing to do.
God Bless America
The most important document in the history of the world, to date. President Trump may spercede it. The world expoded. The sharpest sword, the longest bloodlines ceded to the will of the people to choose their own leader. In the last 200 years the world has seen unimaginable progress. All because of 5 men, a vision and the commitment to back it all up. All of you, we cannot thank you enough.
Sorry but it is certainly not the most important document before the Bible.
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The Lord’s word is eternal.
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With that said, for me it comes right after the Bible.
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The Declaration of Independence certainly references the cannon of scripture.
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BTW, the Bible is the most printed document(s) that the world has ever seen.
Well, the Bible is called “The Good Book” though, not a document per se …
(And not the reference to the secular anthology titled “The Good Book: A Humanist Bible,” compiled by A.C. Grayling)
I am grateful, growing up in the 1960s that i recited the pledge of allegiance and memorized the preabble to the Declaration of Independence.when was this stopped?
I retired in 2015 after 40 years teaching middle school. In 2015 we still stood and pledged the flag, followed by a moment of silence. This was in the Charleston, SC area. Years before that, I had a student at the front of the room who refused to stand and recite the pledge, thus making a statement to impressionable students around and behind him. I addressed it by making a class seating change and assigned him the desk at the back of the room behind the majority of students. He no longer had the satisfaction of “making a name for himself.”
Awwww, you took away “his platform”.
It all stopped about the time we heard “You know, the thing.”
Yes, “…Say a prayer for America today.”
Amen
God Bless America
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Although it’s a musical, the film “1776,” based on the Broadway play, has some moments in which one gets the sense of how momentous this was, even though some is fictionalized.
When the men pledged their “Lives, Fortunes and sacred Honor,” they weren’t exaggerating. They would have been hanged as traitors if the Revolution had failed, with their assets seized and families thrown into the street, if not run out of town.
Just the vote to open debate on independence was risky. (Watch for the rationale of the deciding vote on opening debate).
There is a debate about all being created equal between some Southerners and some New England representatives. The Southerner criticizes them (in a song), for their hypocrisy, as he claims the New England shipping industry profits from the slave trade.
William Daniels as John Adams and Howard DaSilva as Ben Franklin are especially delightful. At one point, they argue over whether the eagle or the turkey should be the national symbol. The turkey loses (as turkeys always do).
And throughout a tired, dirty young courier comes clomping in with his spurs still on to deliver messages from General Washington with updates on military action. Before one anticipated encounter, Washington writes, “Lord, how many brave men will I lose today.”
Read the book “1776” you’ll get a true sense of just how close we came to losing this country. AMAZING and MIRACULOUS events took place, both man-made and delivered from God.
There was a recent movie/documentary released which was pretty good (particularly the ending scenes with the Continental Congress) called “The American Miracle – Our Nation is No Accident”. Yes, the acting is a little wooden, but it takes you through some of the miracles of our revolutionary war. The book 1776 covers more, and highlights other insights only alluded to or referenced in the movie mentioned above, such as the transport of cannons from Fort Dixon and Ticonderoga hundreds of miles through ice, mud, snow and across waterways, to be placed over Boston. And more details about how they were placed without waking the townspeople or alerting the British.
The site about the movie is here: https://americanmiraclemovie.com/ and people can sponsor it in the theater, or buy the bluray/dvd, which is coming out later this month.
I remember seeing a documentary about the transport of the cannon when I was a kid. I think Ronald Reagan narrated it. They had actors struggling through the snow with feet wrapped in rags because their boots were worn out. They left a trail of bloody footprints.
My son, who has a BA in History recently presented me with a SIGNED first edition of David McCullough’s book 1776! It truly is an amazing book! I will continue to read my old worn copy though – this new one will stay in its case!
I also highly recommend his biography of John Adams, which included many fascinating details about the complicated relationship between Adams and Thomas Jefferson, BOTH of whom died on the same day – July 4, 1826!
It is a classic and a family tradition to watch it each 4th of July.
Many years ago I had a British boyfriend who simply could not understand American’s pride in our flag and founding.
I had him watch this movie with me, partake in a July 4th celebration replete with fireworks, patriotic songs and discussions about America and our founding over barbeque. Our family made a pledge every holiday to remember our troops and the patriots who preceded us.
He had never been taught any of the American point of view on the Revolution.
I’m proud to say he became an American citizen and a patriot. He learned the value and covenant that is America.
I had never heard of it but caught a few glimpses on Warroom today. Plan on watching it later. Somehow it being a musical seems fitting…:)
Somehow it being a musical seems fitting.
Even though it does try to give us a sense of the risks the patriots took, there is also joy and hope , and not just from the singing and dancing.
“Often we cannot adequately find words to express our own sentiments, let alone those of a nation and successive generations to come.”
-Sundance
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Perfectly said.
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Thankful for this country🇺🇸 and its patriots. 🙏🏻♥️🇺🇸
Check out this link for the sobering fate of many of those who so pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. I tried the link and it didn’t work? “File not found.”
America! Thank God!! Yes Amen and Amen!!! I Praise the Lord I was born in the greatest county ever!!!! Godspeed President Trump and Sundance!!!
Same, I do know many of the signers faced great hardship.
There is a simple but profound reason why the American Revolution sent shockwaves throughout Europe. The founders believed that the authority to govern proceeds from the people to the state, that rights are inherent and not conferred by the government, thus government derives its power from the consent (not the acquiescence) of the governed.
To this day, that fundamental difference remains, which is why the signers of the Declaration did not ultimately give us a parliamentary system (which dilutes the ability of the populace to effect any substantial change), but rather a constitutional republic. No one but God gives you your rights.
Hubby and I watched this again a few days ago. Great movie.
I’m going to watch it in a few minutes. If anyone has any other great American Independence movie recommendations it would be appreciated. Happy Fourth Alley
I am going to watch the aforementioned 1776 which I hadn’t heard of…the John Adams mini series is my absolute favorite…
One of the really riveting scenes was watching Heath Ledger watching – from a window – the two sides meeting.
Decades ago the History Channel did an excellent series on the Founding Fathers. I think early 2000’s, best guess. I recorded them all on VHS.
They have it behind a paid subscription now, of course, and their more recent releases on the Revolution have been woke and disappointing.
1776 and The Patriot remain my favorite movies about our fight for independence.
Wouldn’t it be great if those were viewed in all schools in the country, as part of POTUS’ teaching patriotism focus? Better than all the woke stuff being pushed currently. I wonder how many teachers would refuse to show it?
It would indeed, Teagan. I would support that 100%.
I think a solid understanding of our rights and how we got them is paramount for every American citizen.
It’s why the teacher’s unions and most schools fight hard to evade educating on them.
Those uneducated in our God given rights are less likely to defend them and decry their usurpation.
Purely from a standpoint of entertainment and passing time:
Independence Day, just because it’s a fun movie.
The Right Stuff; Ed Harris is terrific in his role..
Yankee Doodle Dandy, I personally love old movies, especially with song and or dance. And James Cagney is in it.
The Sandlot, best baseball movie ever. You’re killing me Smalls…
☺️🤗🙏❤️ Happy Fourth to you and yours as well, friend Colkitto.
Just hit me how much Bill Pullman sounds like a certain Very Stable Genius President in this bit:
Yankee Doodle Dandy!!!! Ace choice – I am going to look for it this evening……
Not a movie, Colkitto, but AMC’s series ‘Turn’ (about the Culper spy ring) had me hooked from the very start… – Four seasons of 10 Ep’s apiece, and I binge-watched the lot inside of a single week.
I thank everyone for their recommendations, good will and cheer. A big part of why I love the Treehouse.
I found this movie. What makes it especially interesting for me, is its about the Battle of Trenton (A Democrat cesspool of a city now) and it would be near Washington Crossing State Park home to somewhat localized and rare Warblers Yellow-Throated & Cerulean that nest there. I visited it to look for them long ago. Happy Fourth and thank God.
Is that Jeff Daniels?… – *Man*, that was one *Helluva* Christmas Present for a newborn Nation (and a sore-beset General, up to that point), no?…
…- Across a Rubicon he, Caesar, ere,
An’ for a Washington, the Delaware…
… – From the secret files of the NSA!! – Laydeez an Gen’u’lmen, I give you!… – Mrs Anna Strong, resident of Setauket NY, in the year of our Lord 1776:…
https://www.nsa.gov/History/Cryptologic-History/Historical-Figures/Historical-Figures-View/Article/1620960/anna-strong
…- Petticoats and Handkerchiefs – *Imagine That*…
…- #LearnToCode… 😉
A great movie about one of those “men who just wanted to be left alone.”
When it was first released, my late husband and I went to see it on July 4th. As the final big battle scene was in full swing, we could hear the local fireworks show begin outside. It was almost like being present there to observe it.
The experience sent shivers down the spine, along with a deep feeling of pride and gratitude for those who fought to procure independence and found our country. I will never forget it.
Ah yes Francis Marion.
The reluctant patriot called into action after his retirement from the brutal French and Indian war.
The drive from my home in the historic district of Charleston to N Myrtle Beach took us through Francis Marion National Forest which is now logged by timber companies in the well conserved forest.
It’s a lesson on why the British lost to the American guerilla patriots. I imagine its impenetrable interiors as they were then and marvel at the hardiness and resourcefulness of the early settlers.
We need the gumption and will to do the necessary battles to preserve our freedom.
My beloved Charleston is now “woke” but in recovery I hope. At present I’m slightly north and on the beach where we are currently safe from blue sprawl.
We work hard to keep it that way. I volunteer as a poll watcher and meet with like minded MAGA folks.
I truly thank you for your service. As our friend Dutchman always reminds us, we need to take back control of our State Republican parties.
John Hancock absolutely wanted King George to know where he stood.
It was his signature achievement 🙂
New York abstained…courteously…
Link isn’t working for me.
Nor me.
A righteous and moral people indeed!
Photographs (yes, photographs) of Revolutionary War veterans taken mid-Nineteenth Century.
https://www.vintag.es/2017/10/rare-photographs-of-revolutionary.html
That was really interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing Wethal – it is now in my KEEP file.
One other thing – none of these men, as well as all of the other brave ‘revolutionaries’, would ever go on to die as SUBJECTS of the monarch!! (Unlike we Canadians and Brits.)
56 signers. The Button Gwinnet signature is particularly rare, due to his untimely death in a duel.
Namesake for Gwinnet County, Jaja, my SiL used to call it; Georgia had no r’s in her pronunciation.
I’m currently listening to the book The Swamp Fox by John Oller. It’s the story of Francis Marion and his battles against the British in the low country and Pee Dee areas of South Carolina. I live in this region so it seems to have a little more meaning, for lack of a better word, because I know these towns and rivers. It’s also a well written and researched book and not some dusty history book story.
Mel Gibson’s character in The Patriot is based on a compilation of several men from this area, including Marion.
I’m thankful every day for men like him, as well as the women who supported them so they could do what they did.
Well said ma’am. I’m going to watch the movie by Mel right now.
Those of us of a certain age also saw the Walt Disney Presents TV series “The Swamp Fox”…
Oh yes!
Good call. Brings back memories of one of my favorite actors Patrick McGoohan “The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh”. Loved it as a kid haven’t seen it in ages. I saw the Swamp Fox back in the day of a Sunday nite Wild Kingdom , Walt Disney and then off to bed. The great old days.
When asked where I consider my ‘home’…I always go back to West of the Ashley, Charleston…and I loved that movie…
It is the ultimate story of The Man Who Just Wanted To Be Left Alone.
Francis Marion, the “Swamp Fox”, was introduced to all of us Baby Boomers by Walt Disney with a weekly TV series. As with all of Disney’s miniseries, it had its own catchy opening jingle. The part of Francis Marion was played by Leslie Nielsen, also of Frank Drebbin fame. More unimportant trivia from me to all of you. Happy 4th!
Thankfully, the King DID read cursive!
Bring back cursive to our schools – it is part of our history, too!
Actually there are several states requiring cursive writing. Some leave it up to districts.
Do believe many are seeing the value of cursive. Which is more than just leaning the technique.
My granddaughter’s asked for instructions! And so the cursive primers along with a bit of instruction became theirs!
BLESSINGS this Independence Day 2025!
The LORD is FAITHFUL!
What We Celebrate On The Fourth
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/what-we-celebrate-fourth-0
God bless America, and God bless us everyone.
♥️🤍💙
It’s my custom to read the Declaration of Independence every July 4th. It’s a beautiful document. It inspires pride and a sense of awe for what our founders endured on behalf of all Americans yet to be born. This is a country blessed by God. There is no doubt it was divinely inspired. Thanks be to God from whom all blessings flow.
US Patriotism Among Democrats Crashes As Marxist Demands Grow Louder
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-patriotism-among-democrats-crashes-some-voices-party-grow-louder-marxism
My children have the DNA of the Adams clan coursing thru their veins and will never cease to proclaim that, distant although it may be…
…yet, the kids today seem to be so far separated from history…with the struggles this country has gone thru in these last 50 years, one never seems to hear from the descendants of our Founding Fathers….they, collectively, are very silent on the matters of true liberty and freedom.
I too have the DNA of the Adams Clan. My family was in the thick of the revolution. Henry Bass (one of the Loyal 9) is my 5x g-grandfather.
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They are not “proud” to be an American because they can’t figure out what sexual or minority loser ldentity that is.
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Amen ! The link for what happened to those men didnt work for me I’m sure that many lost everything
They were throwing off the reigns of a Monarch. Not easy and deadly.
Thank you for this.
God bless our forefathers! 🇺🇲
God bless America! 🎇
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Thank you, Sundance!
Thank you to Sundance and to all who continue to give so much to help retain and secure our freedom.
Happy Forth of July!
In honor of those 5 men, especially one….a replay of my favorite scene from “1776” from running their quill pens thru it…to Livingston popping corks in old New York to the simple cobbler from Connecticut, participles and predicates:
Found in the bin…. 🙁
By physical force if necessary. 😂
Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights … Unalienable Rights.
And that Government only exists by consent, and not as a successor to Him.
Today we celebrate yet again the primacy of God the Almighty, as did our Founders, as reflected in this Declaration.
Our Independence, our lives and our liberties, are by God’s grace.
I love that song. Didn’t they use it often in Popeye cartoons?
Though our Declaration of Independence is beautifully written a recitation of the offenses of the Usurper’s tenure in office could properly be written and would be much longer.
A sample:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/pardoned-j6er-edward-kelley-sentenced-life-threatening-fbi/
Sundance, thank you for always reminding us what is so important about what we’re seeking to retain; President Reagan warned us again how quickly and easily it could be lost.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸✝️
John Hancock…and signing the document…
America it is far from perfect
I thank God because the alternative could be so much worse
Happy Independence Day everyone!
In 1776, the Founding Fathers ranged in age from their late teens to their seventies. Benjamin Franklin was the oldest at 70, while several were in their 20s, including James Monroe (18), Aaron Burr (20), Alexander Hamilton (21), and James Madison (25). John Adams was 40, Thomas Jefferson was 33, and George Washington was 44. A good cross section of patriots.
“…and if you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it”.
Retired Magistrate here: America, the land of the free and the brave where dreams really do come true if you are willing to work for them.
A favorite tribute of mine by the hilarious Stan Freberg — a last-minute discussion by Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson of the Declaration of Independence.
Yesterday was literally the next step in our Revolution 2.0. A battle in a war that is not yet over, for the enemy still has resources and, as Sundance says repeatedly, there are literally trillions at stake, as well as control of the world. Given this, we are well on the way towards victory as we return the greatest country in world history to its founding principles and former greatness!
Happy Independence Day!
July 4, 1776
– The Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence.
July 4, 1826
– America’s second and third presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, die within hours of each other.
July 4, 1831
– James Monroe, America’s fifth president, dies.
July 4, 2025
-Donald J Trump,
America’s 45th and 47th president,
signs The Big Beautiful Bill
✝️❤️🇺🇸
The https://nhccs.org/Destiny.html link is broken but this may be the information: https://constitution.org/2-Reference/bio/fate_of_signers.htm
Tom…I keep finding your comments in our bin, and I’m terribly sorry, because you’re not on our blocked list.
Could you possibly change your email address? That’s what’s probably giving you a false-positive match with someone who’s on our blocked list.
Testify!
Having been a keenly informed, observant, and much-abused passenger on the “long train of abuses and usurpations [committed by our hugely corrupt current government], pursuing invariably [and with great evil and unconstitutional intent] the [direct and well-planned] Object [which clearly] evinces a design to reduce [all of us said passengers] under absolute [surveillance, financial control, and] Despotism,” I have long wondered exactly what Jefferson meant by using the words “throw off” when referring to the actions we have a duty to take against our government under such circumstances.
Back then, having been a long abused and suffering passenger himself, Jefferson probably meant something along the lines of “Go F**k Yourself King”, we are willing to fight for our freedom to the death. And of course that’s exactly what happened.
Sundance refers to what we must do as a “battle” for the right of every man, woman and child together to become a people united in goal and resolve.”
One “throws off” covers in the morning upon waking, and terrorists “throw off” wheelchair-bound handicapped persons from the decks of cruise ships, but “throwing off” our current government in today’s world is going to take far closer coordination and resolve than simply trying to vote the lying, corrupt bastards out of office.
Trump, once out of government at the end of his current term, becomes our private-sector “General” to direct this Big Beautiful Battle against our government?
I can only hope.
The link that Sundance provides doesn’t work for me. I wonder if it’s a book I have titled “Signing their lives away” , by Denise Kiernan and Joseph D’Agnese. It’s a great read and I recommend it.