Let us not forget the ideas that made America great and for which it was attacked.
The attack on America was (is) idealogical as well as physical. It was not hard to find quotes by the founders to use as ammunition against them.
Now if only the modern politicians would understand this.....
That all men are by nature equally free and independent,
and have certain rights, of which, when they enter into a state
of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity;
namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring
and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and
safety.
Virginia Bill of Rights, June 12,
1776
It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for
yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong
are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid
of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the
art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will
give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson,
A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1775
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind
and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
James
Madison, letter to William Bradford, 1774