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Our Lives our Fortunes and our sacred Honor
It is Independence Day. Two hundred and thirty-nine years ago today the colonists declared the unanimous Declaration of
Independence of the Thirteen United States of America.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected
them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them
to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right
themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing
invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off
such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and
such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of
Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny
over these States.
Two hundred and thirty-nine years ago today we became a free and sovereign nation -- not because some justices on a court declared
us so.
No.
Because we declared ourselves to be.
We the People freed ourselves from tyranny. Our founders mutually pledged to each other "our Lives our Fortunes and our sacred
Honor" to break the bonds of tyranny and declare themselves "Free and Independent States."
This is what makes America exceptional.
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We chose to liberate ourselves. We defied all of human history to shed the chains of tyranny and declare ourselves free and
sovereign individuals, endowed by our Creator with unalienable Rights -- Rights that no government can take away.
On this 239th Birthday of America, I wanted to share this poignant and beautiful description of American Exceptionalism from none
other than Rush Limbaugh.
I give you both video and transcript:
YouTube Video: YouTube.com/watch?v=s4F2kphfqmg
Anyway, what American exceptionalism is not: It is not that we are better people. It is not that we are superior people. It is not that
we are smarter people. It is not that God loves us and hates everybody else. It is not that God prefers us. It is not that God doesn't
prefer anybody else.
American exceptionalism has nothing to do with anything but freedom and liberty. Here is what American exceptionalism is. By
the way, this is one of the fundamental reasons why I got so excited when presented with the idea of writing a book about the truth
of American history (in stages and various elements) for young people. My book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, is all about
the exceptionalism of those people.
So what is it? Well, if you know the history of the world... Read your Bible, read whatever historical account of humanity you hold
dear, and what you'll read about is human tyranny. You'll read of bondage. You'll read of slavery. The vast majority of the people,
the vast majority of the human beings who have lived and breathed and walked this planet have lived under the tyranny of despots,
the vast majority.
It isn't even close.
The vast majority of the people of this world since the beginning of time have never known the kind of liberty and freedom that's
taken for granted every day in this country. Most people have lived in abject fear of their leaders. Most people have lived in abject
fear of whoever held power over them. Most people in the world have not had plentiful access to food and clean water. It was a
major daily undertaking for most people to come up with just those two basic things.
Just surviving was the primary occupation of most people in the world. The history of the world is dictatorship, tyranny,
subjugation, whatever you want to call it of populations -- and then along came the United States of America. Pilgrims were the first
to come here seeking freedom from all of that. They were oppressed because of their religion. They were told they had to believe in
the king and his god, whatever it was, or they would be imprisoned.
They led an exodus from Europe to this country, people of the same mind-set. They simply wanted to escape the tyranny of their
ordinary lives. This country was founded that way. For the first time in human history, a government and country was founded on
the belief that leaders serve the population. This country was the first in history, the EXCEPTION -- e-x-c-e-p-t, except. The
exception to the rule is what American exceptionalism is.
It is because of this liberty and freedom that our country exists, because the founders recognized it comes from God. It's part of the
natural yearning of the human spirit. It is not granted by a government. It's not granted by Putin. It's not granted by Obama or any
other human being. We are created with the natural yearning to be free, and it is other men and leaders throughout human history
who have suppressed that and imprisoned people for seeking it.
The US is the first time in the history of the world where a government was organized with a Constitution laying out the rules, that
the individual was supreme and dominant, and that is what led to the US becoming the greatest country ever because it unleashed
people to be the best they could be. Nothing like it had ever happened. That's American exceptionalism. Putin doesn't know what it
is, Obama doesn't know what it is, and it just got trashed in the New York Times. It's just unacceptable.
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What more could I possibly add to that brilliant insight?
Happy Independence Day.
Keep your powder dry. Because a second Revolution is underway.
We didn't start it.
But, make no mistake, we better be the ones to finish it.
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