Founding Father Alexander Hamilton wrote even before the shot heard round the world launched the Revolution, “There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.” That is an enthusiasm that America must recapture and foster for our younger generation today.
We all know by now that reclaiming America necessarily involves taking back our local school boards and founding new educational institutions and organizations. Under the Donald Trump administration, the outlook is more favorable. And, as the Founders understood well, unless most Americans can once again receive an education grounded in the best of Judeo-Christian Western civilization, and imbued throughout with a love of liberty and patriotism, our future is in serious jeopardy.
In early 1775, before the American Revolution began but after it was obvious that open conflict was likely to occur, many Americans were apprehensive about the future. A young Alexander Hamilton — possibly still in his teens — appears to have been one of the more optimistic Patriots, based on his work “The Farmer Refuted.”
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With the enthusiasm of youth and a touch of visionary foresight, Hamilton predicted that the impending conflict could end up being much more harmful for Great Britain than for the American colonies:
Whatever may be said of the disciplined troops of Britain, the event of the contest must be extremely doubtful. There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. It cannot be expected, that America would yield, without a magnanimous persevering and bloody struggle. The testimony of past ages, and the least knowledge of mankind, must suffice to convince us of the contrary… the pulse of Americans beats high, in their country’s cause. Let us then suppose, the arms of Britain triumphant and America mutilated, exhausted and vanquished. What situation will Britain then be in? What laurels will she reap, from her conquest? Alas! none. Every true friend to that deluded country, must shudder at the prospect of her self-destroying success.
Ultimately, Hamilton was more right than anyone could have known in 1775 — even Hamilton himself. Britain lost the American colonies in the Revolution, and a new nation was born that would eventually usurp Britain’s place as the most powerful nation in the world. And to this day, the young Alexander Hamilton’s words about the “enthusiasm in liberty” continue to inspire Patriots.
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Let his words inspire us, too. We now are fighting a culture war as vital to the survival of our great nation as the Revolution was to its founding. Domestic tyrants, Marxists and globalists, have successfully made much of our educational system a mere leftist propagandization program. We are fighting for the future of America, and we cannot afford to be any less brave and determined than that founding generation of Patriots was.
