"And for the support of this Declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
I sometimes find the last line of the Declaration more inspiring that any other in the document.
And because we should remember their names on this day:
Delaware:
George Read | Caesar Rodney | Thomas McKean |
Pennsylvania:
George Clymer | Benjamin Franklin | Robert Morris | John Morton | Benjamin Rush | George Ross | James Smith | James Wilson | George Taylor |
Massachusetts:
John Adams | Samuel Adams | John Hancock | Robert Treat Paine | Elbridge Gerry
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett | William Whipple | Matthew Thornton |
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins | William Ellery |
New York:
Lewis Morris | Philip Livingston | Francis Lewis | William Floyd |
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett | Lyman Hall | George Walton |
Virginia:
Richard Henry Lee | Francis Lightfoot Lee | Carter Braxton | Benjamin Harrison | Thomas Jefferson | George Wythe | Thomas Nelson, Jr. |
North Carolina:
William Hooper | John Penn | Joseph Hewes
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge | Arthur Middleton | Thomas Lynch, Jr. | Thomas Heyward, Jr. |
New Jersey:
Abraham Clark | John Hart | Francis Hopkinson | Richard Stockton | John Witherspoon |
Connecticut
Samuel Huntington | Roger Sherman | William Williams | Oliver Wolcott |
Maryland:
Charles Carroll | Samuel Chase | Thomas Stone | William Paca |
