Do You Feel Loyal to the Founding Fathers?

Do you feel loyal to the founding fathers of the United States of America? If you haven't really thought about it, here's something they said that touched me very deeply many years ago when I first heard it. 

"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."

These are the remarks made at the very end of the Declaration of Independence, written in 1776. Can you imagine? Here they were, knowing full well that they were getting ready for war
with the most powerful nation on earth at that time, England, and they pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. And they had a "firm reliance of divine Providence."

Every time I think about it, I feel inspired and in awe. It's hard for me to imagine being in that sort of situation. Yet they were, and it seems to me that they made this oath not only for themselves, but for us too... because 11 years later, they referred to us as "our posterity" in the preamble of the Constitution, after winning the war.

"... secure the blessings of liberty, for ourselves and our posterity..."

Yes, that would be us. They were thinking about the people who would come after them when they took that calculated risk to free themselves from tyranny and to establish our Constitution based on natural law.

When you think of the founders of our country, the risks they took and the oaths they made, how does it make you feel?