NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “Well, I thank my colleagues from Georgia and New Jersey, and I think about those who helped to write our Constitution…”

“Well, I thank my colleagues from Georgia and New Jersey, and I think about those who helped to write our Constitution but also those blessed in history to help draft the Declaration of Independence. I think of so many who gave so much, and indeed history has well-chronicled the hardships of many of those who signed our Declaration. As eloquent as the first few words in the Constitution of the United States are, that wonderful, beautiful Preamble, I am also struck by the faith and the determination of our Nation's Founders in the final words in the Declaration. Those words we should remember. 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. Mr. Speaker, I said earlier that for some reason, as years pass, we tend to view these events perhaps not through rose colored glass but with an unwillingness or, dare I say, ignorance of the hardships many of these people faced.”