Our Founding Fathers risked everything they had to create a new nation, the United States of America, and that attribute that has come to be known as American Exceptionalism.

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Had the American Revolution failed, each of them would have faced execution – and the loss of all their property, which would have condemned their wives and children to a life of poverty. It was a remarkable gamble, because most of the Founding Fathers were already wealthy, successful men.

 

They didn’t rebel against England for personal enrichment; they rebelled because they truly believed that the loss of freedom was worse than death.