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As America marks 250 years, our greatest chapters are still ahead of us

Bold vision, relentless drive and the willingness to see risk as opportunity is baked into our American culture

By Arthur Herman Fox News

Published July 5, 2026 6:00am EDT

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Justice Gorsuch reflects on the courage of America’s Founding Fathers

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch reflects on the Declaration of Independence and America’s Founding Fathers on ‘Sunday Night in America.’

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Our Founding Fathers are still with us. The story of America that they started in 1776 is only just beginning—and they will be with us all the way.

That’s because their legacy lives on not just in our laws, our Constitution and their fundamental proposition that all men are created equal with the same unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—rights that are God-given, not government-given.

Their legacy also lives on in the spirit with which they wrote and signed the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago. That spirit animated our Founders’ bold vision of the future; their drive to take decisive action to make that vision happen; and their willingness to risk it all, including "their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor," to accomplish their goal. It didn’t die with the revolutionary generation.

AMERICA’S NEXT 250 YEARS DEPEND ON........

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