With America’s 250th now on the horizon, it is natural to look backward.

We think about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that they were risking their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

We think about the soldiers who froze at Valley Forge, the pioneers who pushed westward, the frontiersmen and farmers who carved a new nation from a wild continent.

We also think about the daunting task of knitting the nation together again following a bloody civil war, the warriors who defeated fascism and communism, the astronauts who put an American flag on the Moon, and the millions of everyday citizens who made the United States of America the greatest nation in the history of the world.

But if we truly want to honor that inheritance, we cannot only look backward. We must look ahead.

The question before us is not merely how we celebrate the last 250 years. The question is whether we are prepared to build an America worthy of celebrating 50 years from now, when our children and grandchildren gather for America 300.

The answer to that question depends on whether we still believe what our Founders believed.

The same principles that carried us from 1776 to today are the principles that can carry us from 2026 to 2076. They are not complicated or outdated: liberty, self-government, self-reliance, faith, family, free enterprise, equal justice, national sovereignty, and the radical concept that these rights come from God, not men.

Those ideals are written into the document we are preparing to celebrate. The Declaration........

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