This gentleman of the early days of the Republic is a great example of how we should be today. His resolve to live free and without fear of tyranny allowed him to write and say those things that need to be still said today. As some of us sit behind our computers and expouse that, that we wish to resolve, this gentleman and those of the time “took action”.

The same action we are called too TODAY!

When John Dickinson died, both houses of Congress wore black armbands in mourning. Why? Because Dickinson recognized that the essential purpose of government was to maintain liberty against others’ predatory acts and that without liberty, “loss of happiness then follows as a matter of course,” helping motivate our founders to create a government whose basis in liberty would make them “protectors of unborn ages, whose fate depends upon your virtue.”

John Dickinson was among America’s most important founders. He was a colonial legislator, member of the Stamp Act, Continental, and Confederation Congresses, chief executive of both Delaware and Pennsylvania, and president of the 1786 Annapolis convention that led to the Constitutional Convention.,