Ken Burns

I get it.

And you begin to see that those differences, which have held these people, they're wearing hose and breeches and they've got powdered wigs.

They're not me.

There's no photograph of anybody.

So they can't be like me.

And they are exactly like us.

And they are one of the more moving things, Chuck, to me is that they're speaking to us like all the time, Washington,

And Jefferson Adams, too, says about the millions yet unborn.

They are taking an idea that's never been tried.

The chances of success at Lexington Green are zero.

And yet they're thinking about you and me.

And so the extraordinary story of our founding is the fact that as the Old Testament says, there's nothing new under the sun.

Guess what?

On July 4th, 1776, there was something new under the sun.

Now, does that mean that there's not the same quantities of virtue and venality and generosity and greed?

Nope.

It's the same thing.

And you can find them in our story then.

And it will echo or as Mark Twain said, rhyme with the present moment.

But you have to be disciplined as a storyteller not to date your film by pointing arrows at isn't this so much like today?