You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.