When independence was declared in 1776, the Founding Fathers were expressing what Americans had long believed about themselves. Self-governance, says Michael Quinn Sullivan in this week’s reflection, is what the Americans had had, what they expected, and what they were willing to die to retain.
- Never personal
- Always trustworthy, with the facts in context
- Relentlessly pro-citizen, unabashedly pro-liberty
- Pursuing our heritage of self-governance
- Inspiring, without venting