“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”
A friend’s email just reminded me of Benjamin Franklin’s words to his fellow signers of the Declaration of Independence. ”We must hang together, or we shall surely hang separately,” opined Franklin following the Continental Congress approval of the Declaration. Franklin’s words conveyed a literal meaning in that signing the Declaration was treason according to King George III and therefore punishable by death. Since that time, “hanging together” has kept America strong. Adolf Hitler, Nikita Khruschev and, more recently, Osama bin Laden, proclaimed that America’s diverse ethnicities and creeds would result in disunity in the face of adversity. They missed the real source of America’s unity. Read more »
Michael Lee Stallard is the President of
