(from The Founders at Home)
George Washington was one of those who was thinking about the need for independence from England long before the fact - because England's rule was setting up their judges to overturn colonial juries, paying and ranking their own military above colonial military, and of course taxing the colonies without the colonies' consent.
While serving in the First Continental Congress, he wrote, " [T]he crisis is arrived where we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition that can be heaped upon us." As a farmer and entrepreneur, he wanted the freedom to do as much with his life as possible, freely, and he sensed that Americans needed to pursue their national life the same way without being hemmed in by English tyranny on every side.
At the Revolutionary War's end, he amazed the world by going back to his Mount Vernon farm and home to do what he wanted to do, live his family and business life in freedom.
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