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The story of the American Founding, the greatest political achievement in history. The American colonists had developed a unique way of life as they practiced self-government for 150 years. In the struggles between the colonies and the mother country that followed the French and Indian War, Britain declared that Americans had no right to rule themselves. This went against everything the Americans knew. In response, our ancestors risked their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to fight the War for Independence. Against all odds, they won, and in victory formed a stable, lasting republic.
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00:03Do you recollect the pensive and awful silence?
00:10When we were called up one after another to the table of the President of Congress
00:15to subscribe what was believed by many at that time
00:25to be our own death warrants.
00:31One of the features of the American Revolution was the Americans were fighting the biggest
00:36world power in existence at that time.
00:39It was an attempt to prove that human beings are not condemned to be governed by force and
00:44accident.
00:44The story of America is a unique story.
00:48Something happened that can actually never happen again.
00:53A number of the founders were marked men.
00:55These were the leaders of a rebellion.
01:00They're putting at risk their lives, orphans and sacred honor.
01:04They would have all been hanged by the British.
01:10It's not simply the matter of having the right law.
01:14You have to have the experience of liberty.
01:16A republic if you can keep it.
01:19They had no other choice.
01:21This was life or death.
01:23If we win freedom, it's always just one generation from extinction.
01:30If they mean to have a war, let it begin here!
01:34Because of America
01:39There's never a story made!
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