"Novus Ordo
Seclorum" ~ "A New Order of the Ages" Came into Being on this Day July
4th, 1776
Today July 4th, 2016, we celebrate the birth date of a unique nation and a unique people. Two hundred and forty years ago, fifty-seven men with an “iron pen” and on the authority of the good people of the colonies, signed the Declaration of Independence, mutually pledging to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor thus, creating a nation whose very name is synonymous with ideas of freedom, liberty, and justice.
With the strength and resolve with which the
Declaration was written these men forged a new nation and a new people noted
for its rugged individualism and inventive spirit when confronted with the
challenges of necessity in the face of a new frontier.
We are a nation whose structure of governance stands
as the very hallmark of innovation in the very way a free people chooses to
conduct their lives. Our nation and its freedoms are the cauldron from which a new
and independent inventive spirit emerged. We are a people who never shied away
from a challenge.
