WILLIAM BENNETT, JOSEPH BENNETT: What the Fourth of July really calls us to do

There is a habit of mind that built this country: the willingness to risk everything for what you will not live to see. That is the central lesson of the founding. The founders called it virtue, and they staked their lives on it — pledging their sacred honor with a firm reliance on divine Providence. Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of men put their names to a declaration that could have been their death warrant, because they believed people could govern themselves and that no king held