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Speaker 1: As it recognized as mister Adams of Massachusetts.

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Speaker 2: Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, measures which will affect

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Speaker 3: Are now before us.

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Speaker 2: We must expect a great expense of blood to obtain them.

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Speaker 2: But we must always remember that a free constitution of

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Speaker 2: as there is nothing on this side of Jerusalem of

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Speaker 2: with great ingenuity and eloquence, he has given you a

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Speaker 2: I see hope. I see a new nation ready to

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Speaker 3: Of the laws.

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Speaker 2: Not men, gentlemen, we are in the very midst of revolution,

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Speaker 2: the most complete, unexpected, and remarkable of any in the

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Speaker 2: But the end we have in sight is more than

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Speaker 2: worth all the means. I believe sirs, that the hour

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Speaker 2: heart is in it all that I have, all that

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Speaker 2: I am now ready to stake upon it while I live.

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Speaker 3: Let me have a country, a free country. Let me care.

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Speaker 2: Now, this is something altogether unexpected, not only a declaration

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Speaker 3: Of the rights of all men.

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Speaker 2: Now this is this is this is well said, sir,

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Speaker 3: In the persons of a distant people who never.

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Speaker 2: Offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's not what I intended, doctor Franklin.

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Speaker 4: Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such.

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Speaker 3: Solution to the problem. But it does no matter.

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Speaker 4: The issue before us is independence and not emancipation, Doctor Franklin.

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Speaker 1: As document is I think something our friends in the

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 4: We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable, that

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Speaker 3: M These truths are self evident? Are they not? Perhaps

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Speaker 3: self evident? Then self evident? Self evident? You're not mistaken, sir.

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Speaker 3: I share your sentiment. Every single word was precisely chosen.

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Speaker 4: Yes, but yours will not be the only hand in

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Speaker 3: It cannot be.

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Speaker 4: They will try to mangle it, and they may succeed.

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Speaker 2: There may be expressions which I would not have inserted

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Speaker 3: Well, that's what I believe. This is a marvelous invention,

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Speaker 3: mister Jefferson. Yes, I went through a number of variations.

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Speaker 3: It's two seats and the top one swivels on rollers

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Speaker 5: This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray

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Speaker 5: for our enemies because we're going to medieval on these people.

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Speaker 6: All these networks lying about the people, the people have

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Speaker 6: I know you tried to do everything in the world

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Speaker 3: Mega media?

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Speaker 6: I wish in my soul, I wish that any of

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Speaker 3: Will be saved. Wom here's your host, Stephen K.

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Speaker 6: It's Friday, four July, the fourth of July in the

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Speaker 5: It's Independence Day, and of course.

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Speaker 6: Here always on Independence Day and our other great civic holidays,

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Speaker 6: And honored to be doing this and thanking Real America's

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Speaker 6: the morning commemoration, we'll be playing clips from I think

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Speaker 6: two masterpieces, HBO's series John Adams that was starting Paul

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Speaker 5: And compromise were best.

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Speaker 5: And that led to the committee.

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Speaker 6: That was drafted the Declaration of Independence. Really the lead

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Speaker 6: Core of it, Thomas Jefferson's one thing to remember, it

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Speaker 5: It's a declaration of independence. But when you're part of

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Speaker 6: Saying, hey, upon further review, we're independent, You're going to war.

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Speaker 6: seventeen seventy six, is that that was a tremendous debate

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Speaker 6: My point, the founders and the founders of the revolutionary

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Speaker 6: From a bunch of smart lawyers and people that knew

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Speaker 5: Long and brutal war.

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Speaker 6: That war did not end till seventeen eighty three. And

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Speaker 6: there were days, as I tell you, in our struggle,

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Speaker 6: O'donald, the greatest combat historian of his generation, will join

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Speaker 6: us at the bottom of the hour.

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Speaker 5: It's Independence Day. In the war room, stick around.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna have music, film clips, history, all of it

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Speaker 2: Speaking thunder to England, France, and Spain, nations over the ocean,

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