Topic: “Our Lives, Our Fortunes, And Our Sacred Honor”

[rickl]

A good post from Francis W. Porretto:

We appear to have forgotten the last part of the Declaration:

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance upon the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

Many of those who signed the Declaration paid for their courage with their blood, their treasure, or both. It was the price of a new nation born in liberty. The signers paid it, not happily, but with full foreknowledge that it might be required of them.

Birth is always attended by blood and pain. But that's also the case with death.

The United States of America is dying. It's being murdered by men of arrogance and limitless ambition: men who think themselves worthy of absolute power over the rest of us. Under their aegis, no few persons have already bled, or have been deprived of their liberty or mulcted of their treasure.

We will not easily cast off their yoke. Their grip upon the levers of power is tight: far tighter than that of the British whom our forebears fought. The glue that holds it in place is that very same evil conviction to which the Declaration spoke: that some should rule, absolutely and by innate right, over the rest.

I haven't been feeling very festive today.

[charlesoakwood]

Me either, the rubber band is stretching tighter and tighter.

[Glock32]

Same here. A commenter at another site summarized it thus: "Land of the spree, home of the slave"

[LadyVirginia]

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance upon the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

I can't even read that without choking up.

Little can we understand what these men were risking.

How many would make that pledge now?

About as many who did then I'd guess...

[John Florida]

I prefer to look for little bits of light in this mess or lose my mind.

[LadyVirginia]

I prefer to look for little bits of light in this mess or lose my mind.

The light is that we're talking about principles that until 235 years ago men could only postulate about.  The United States prove them true.  That is quite a legacy.

[AlanS]

I prefer to look for little bits of light in this mess or lose my mind.

The light is that we're talking about principles that until 235 years ago men could only postulate about.  The United States prove them true.  That is quite a legacy.

Too many are trying to rewrite history and change the legacy. We must keep it alive.

[Dan]

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance upon the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

I can't even read that without choking up.

Little can we understand what these men were risking.

How many would make that pledge now?

About as many who did then I'd guess...

I'm in...
If nobody else steps up first, I will not stay inactive while this Republic is destroyed. That is my pledge. I figger I need at least a yr to get put back in shape before I can reasonably expect to hump a ruck.
In the meantime, we must make it clear to the Domestic Enemies that if they want to destroy this Nation and trample on our Liberty, they they will have to kill us or die trying.

[Libertas]

...or die trying!