07/04/2026
Today is a birthday. And like all birthdays you celebrate the good in the person and how they have impacted your life. You don’t focus on their faults, but how God has allowed them to be in your life.
It is the same with America. Today is her 250th birthday. Yes, she has faults—as we all do—but she has a lot of good too. She is made up of people who are not perfect, but she is also made up of people who are courageous, creative, and faithful. She was started 250 years ago by 56 brave men who determined that they, their families, friends, and other colonists should live free, making their own choices as God has allowed us to do. They risked everything—their “life, fortunes, and sacred honor”—as they believed that God, the author of liberty was also the defender of justice.
As you celebrate this monumental birthday today, remember that there is something more profound at work: the hand of God has guided, sustained, and blessed this nation from the start and will continue to do so until His son returns.
But it is up to us as citizens of this great nation to not let what our founding fathers started slip away. Anything worth having is worth fighting and working for, as Ronald Reagan said,
“We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom -- freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs production [protection].
So, we've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion but what's important -- why the Pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doolittle was, and what those 30 seconds over Tokyo meant... If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I'm warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit. Let's start with some basics: more attention to American history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/videos/the-story-of-america-the-faith-of-our-founders/
The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence. It will highlight the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest...