The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die. — George Washington

My Take – It is long past time to halt the decline of our country.  If we hope to pass on a world worth having to our children and their children, we must get off our butts and start making it so.  We can no longer put off the hard decisions or avoid the painful steps.  The time has come to return to what we truly are and leave behind that which we have become.