We are at a watershed moment in America and in American history. This is no time for American patriots to surrender and “move on.” Instead, we must strengthen our resolve and redouble our efforts to expose corruption, restore election integrity, and preserve authentic liberty.

This is no time for American patriots to surrender and “move on.”

Donald Trump and his legal team understand this. Lin Wood and Sidney Powell understand it as well. On December 2, 2020, at a rally in Wills Park in Alpharetta, Georgia, Lin Wood challenged an overflow crowd, declaring, “It’s 1776 in America again!”

Take note! Because the crisis we now face in America is as as much a threat to liberty and as urgent as the crisis faced by our Founders, we need the Founders’ mettle and fortitude. We must rediscover the Spirit of ’76 and emulate them. Never back down, never give up, never surrender! Why? Because truth and freedom matter, and they must matter to us as much as they did to the patriots who founded this great country!

We must rediscover the Spirit of ’76 and emulate America’s Founders. Never back down, never give up, never surrender!

What qualities characterized the Founders? This article, which I originally released on July 13, 2019, highlights twelve characteristics that set America’s Founders apart as heroes of liberty.

May we, with God’s help exercise these same qualities, qualities on which the future of America and American liberty depend.

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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom – go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
—Samuel Adams, in a speech delivered at the State House in Pennsylvania on August 1, 1776—

Key point: In our day, America needs a renewed understanding of authentic liberty—what it means and what it requires. Americans also need a renewed appreciation for it—and how rare it is in the world. Liberty, you see, isn’t the norm, but the exception. Why? Because without the underpinnings of an understanding of right and wrong, absolute truth, and morality, liberty quickly deteriorates into chaos. The signers of the Declaration of Independence give us a model for securing and maintaining liberty, not just in the principles they upheld, but also in how they upheld them. We need to recapture the Spirit of ’76!

This article is presented against the backdrop of a series of articles titled “Principles of Liberty,” and a Bible Study series titled “Principles of Liberty: Ten Biblical Truths Embedded in the Declaration of Independence.”

As I have researched and written in recent days about the principles of liberty embedded in the Declaration of Independence, I have come to realize that the United States of America became free, strong, productive, and a force for good in the world not just because of the ideals that the Founding Fathers upheld in and through the Declaration of Independence and other founding documents. It did so also because of the signers’ own commitment to the cause of liberty and their efforts to pass their priorities on to future generations. Our forebears put everything on the line for American independence and liberty, and their sacrifices were great.

If we have any hope of seeing our efforts to return America to its founding principles, we must not only uphold the ideals they promoted, but also be as faithful in our efforts to preserve and advance liberty.

The March to Valley Forge / William Tregg

Why were they so committed?

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