Glenn Beck

And they signed away their safety.

They knew that most likely they were going to die.

It was a death warrant.

And they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

And they meant every word.

I know it because I've been doing a lot of research on the signing of the Declaration.

I've got some things coming up in the next couple of weeks that I've learned so much about these men that I can't wait to share with you.

I'm sitting here in a small town

just outside.

I'm actually in a smaller town than this small town, Preston.

But it's one of the neighboring towns.

And it's just different here.

It's just different.

Small towns are different all around America.

You know, they are.

And they couldn't have imagined our founders, this small little town in southeastern Idaho with a bare river running cold through the mountains and

the alfalfa and the grain stretching out green and gold under a sky that is so big sometimes it just makes you feel small in all the best ways.

It makes you just feel small.

And while our founders couldn't have imagined Preston or even Idaho, this is what they fought for.

This is what they were fighting for, these small little towns.