The Daily Signal on The Victor Davis Hanson Show on Spotify

We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. They knew that this would be regarded by the king and parliament as an act of treason. So the people who signed that were basically saying, we're voting against the most powerful country in the world. The Declaration of Independence reminds Americans who they are. Its words are ingrained in our memory. Its virtues are etched into our character. Its principles are impressed upon our destiny. Its signers carved out a new nation in the new world. For 250 years, the Declaration of Independence has inspired their descendants to defend their liberties. Liberty doesn't want paths from one generation to the next through the bloodstream. It has to be fought for, defended, won with every generation. That there's nothing more important for which we would give our lives. But history has a way of making the unthinkable seem inevitable. But the Declaration of Independence was never inevitable. The Declaration of Independence is the culmination of one of the greatest political traumas in history. As ideas clash, as armies gather, as the fate of a continent hung in the balance, the hopes of millions wanting independence rested with a small group of statesmen willing to...