The Signers Knew the Cost of Freedom

ORLANDO, FL – As America prepares to celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a document which maintained that the 13 American states were free of British rule, it is important to note the faith and sacrifice of the signers to ensure that this nation was founded upon Judeo-Christian principles and religious freedom.

A few months before signing the Declaration, Patrick Henry, a Founder who served as the first and sixth post-colonial governor of Virginia, addressed the Virginia Convention and declared: “We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”