Signers of the Declaration of Independence … disappointed
(CNN) — How would the likes of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin feel about the way the United States has turned out 232 years after declaring its independence?
Most Americans say they’re proud to be citizens, but most Americans also think the Founding Fathers wouldn’t be pleased. Not pleased, a majority of Americans recently polled said.
- Poll: 69 percent of respondents think Founding Fathers would be disappointed
- Still, 61 percent say they’re extremely proud to be an American
- 41 percent: Presidential candidates should always wear flag pin when dressed up
These powerful Senators remain in place to make our Founding Fathers roll in their graves.They focus on promoting misguided paranoia about a war that was really about oil, power, money and a sick religous agenda. The 4th of July should remind Americans about the original intention of our Founding Fathers.
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Excerpts from:
Declaration of The Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
July 6, 1775
Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.
In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it — for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.
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