1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael 2 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 1: Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from Black 3 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:20,479 Speaker 1: Very Smoke. I can feel a good one coming on. 4 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: It's the Michael Berry Show. 5 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 2: Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed 6 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 2: by some as downright undemocratic. 7 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 3: Two six packs show that Nash is a little then 8 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 3: Lugga's then a normal of Paul Harvey peace, which means 9 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 3: we can't get it all into one segment no matter 10 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:44,480 Speaker 3: how hard we try. Here is the rest of that piece. 11 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:49,480 Speaker 3: It's called freedom to chains. It's like sort of from 12 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,520 Speaker 3: freedom to change to change. It's how you go from 13 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 3: being a free, independent people to being enslaved. And what's 14 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 3: interesting is, I'll tell you when the bit is over 15 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 3: the year it came out. This thing came out before 16 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 3: most of you were born. But it's just as true 17 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 3: today because every failing of the human condition, every one 18 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 3: of them, goes back to very simple things. Who will 19 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 3: make decisions for the individual? Will it be the individual 20 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 3: or will it be the collective? Will it be the king, 21 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 3: Will it be the authoritarian? Will it be the slave master? 22 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 3: It is not natural for you and me to get 23 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 3: to make decisions for ourselves. We get to make decisions 24 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 3: for ourselves because those who came before us fought are 25 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 3: a system where we would get to. That's why I 26 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 3: get angry when people give up their freedom. 27 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: Oh I have to. 28 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 3: Take a shot because you tell me to, because you're 29 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 3: the expert. Okay, I will, and I'll make sure that 30 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 3: everybody else has to take a shot too. You fight 31 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 3: for your freedom at every turn, because once it's gone, 32 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 3: you'll never get it back. Here's the rest of Paul 33 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 3: Harvey's freedom to chains. 34 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 2: It was internal decay, it was not external attack that destroyed. 35 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 1: The Roman Empire. 36 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 2: Starting about one hundred and forty six BC, internal conditions 37 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 2: in Rome were characterized by a welder of plast wars 38 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 2: and conflicts, street brawls, corrupt governors, lack of personal integrity 39 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 2: and moral responsibility. About two hundred and ninety years after Christ, 40 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 2: a Roman emperor named Diocletian took over. He really grabbed 41 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 2: the bull by the horns. He took over in a 42 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 2: period of turmoil and severe depression. The first thing Diocletian 43 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 2: did was calling the gold and closed the banks and. 44 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 1: Raised the taxes. 45 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 2: He reduced the power of the Senate delegated its power 46 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 2: to a lot of little government bureaus. Do you know 47 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 2: they even had a transportation act back there, prescribing the 48 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 2: fee required to rent one laden ass per mile, and 49 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 2: to today's rate of exchange at will to do about 50 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 2: one eighth cent per mile, which meant that in order 51 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 2: to make a profit a jackass would have to carry 52 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 2: five passengers, and was simply beyond the capacity of the jackass. 53 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 2: Diocletian put millions of people on the public payroll, but 54 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 2: when this failed to do the job the country was 55 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 2: still in trouble, he asked more personal powers for himself. 56 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 2: For a brief while, incidentally they were stand by powers. 57 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 2: But then he used him all at once. He froze wages, 58 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,679 Speaker 2: he froze prices, he froze jobs, He stopped profits. He 59 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 2: dictated to the farmer what he should plant, when and 60 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:21,239 Speaker 2: how he should sell it, and for how much neration 61 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 2: food and what happened? The labor market closed down, incentive 62 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 2: was gone. Farm life became dependent on bureaucratic red tape. 63 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 2: Exorbitant taxes cost the farmer's land. He kept for himself 64 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 2: only a small plot on which he might grow turnips 65 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 2: for his family. He lost the rest of it to 66 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 2: the state, and without food and with incentive gone, city 67 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 2: life stagnated and declined, and Rome passed into what history 68 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 2: has recorded as the Dark Ages, lasting one thousand years. 69 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 2: Just by turning to the left, the world has gone 70 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 2: in circles. A nation would evolve from a monarchy into 71 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 2: an oligarchy, from oligarchy to dictatorship, from dictatorship to bureaucracy, 72 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 2: from bureaucracy to pure democracy, where finally the people would 73 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 2: cry out from the chaos and confusion of the streets, 74 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 2: so please, God, give us a king, And God would 75 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 2: give them a king, and they'd have a monarchy again 76 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 2: and start the whole silly cycle anew. Now, either we 77 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 2: will profit from the errors of their ways, or it 78 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 2: follows us to night to day. Our children are going 79 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 2: to have to relive the Dark Ages all over again. 80 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 2: How come, after thousands of years of experiment, our new 81 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 2: nation has come so far, so fast, all this in 82 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 2: less than two hundred years. 83 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: What is the secret of our success? 84 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 2: Well, I think it had to do with the basic 85 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 2: American's creed. Perhaps it never passed the pioneer's lips in 86 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 2: this form, but if it had, I think he would 87 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 2: have said something like this, I believe in my God, 88 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 2: in my country, and in myself. I know that sounds 89 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 2: like a trite, too simple thing to say, and yet 90 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:01,039 Speaker 2: it's a rare man day who dared to stand up 91 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 2: and say, I believe in my God and my country 92 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 2: and in myself and in that order. When the early 93 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 2: American pioneer first turned his eyes toward the West, there 94 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 2: were only Indian trails or traces, as they were called 95 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 2: for in the follow through the wilderness. Do you know 96 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 2: today you can roll escape from Miami to Seattle, from 97 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 2: San Diego to Plymouth Rock in this little bitty instant, 98 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 2: as historical time is measured, our seven percent of the 99 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 2: Earth's population has come to possess more than half of 100 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 2: all the world's good things. 101 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: How come well, sir? 102 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 2: When that early pioneer turned his eyes toward the West, 103 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 2: he didn't demand that somebody else look after him. He 104 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 2: didn't demand free education, he didn't demand a guaranteed rocking 105 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 2: share at eventide. He didn't demand that somebody else take 106 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 2: care of him if he got ill or got old. 107 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 2: There was an old fashioned philosophy in those days. The 108 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 2: demand was supposed to provide for his own and for 109 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 2: his own future. He didn't demand a maximum amount of 110 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 2: money for a minimum amount of work, nor did he 111 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 2: expect pay for no work at all. Come to think 112 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 2: of it, he didn't demand anything. That hard handed pioneer 113 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 2: just looked out there at the rolling planes stretching away 114 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,479 Speaker 2: to the tall green mountains, and then lifted his eyes 115 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 2: to the blue skies and said, thank you God. 116 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: Now I can take it from here. Now that's fear. 117 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 1: It isn't dead in our country. 118 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 2: It's dorm and it's been discredited in some circles, driven underground, 119 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 2: but it isn't dead. It's just a few seasons ago, 120 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 2: politicians baiting their hooks with free barbecue and treating a 121 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 2: Ponzi promise for votes, began telling us we don't want 122 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 2: opportunity anymore. We want security. We don't want the opportunity. 123 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,919 Speaker 2: They said, we want security, and they said it so 124 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,719 Speaker 2: often we came to believe them. We wanted security, and 125 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 2: they gave us chains, and we were secure suddenly, with 126 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 2: our constitutional guarantees depleted, with our national character eroding away, 127 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 2: with our tax laws penalizing those who dare to prosper, 128 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 2: with workers concentrating on how little they can get by 129 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 2: with instead of how much they can produce. Suddenly, we 130 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:00,839 Speaker 2: looked overhead one day to disc covered that the first 131 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 2: ten moon in space was a Russian accomplishment, that free 132 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 2: men dragging their feet had been out distanced by slave 133 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 2: workers dragging their chains, and we were sore afraid. Perhaps 134 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 2: this was a disguised blessing too, maybe a dramatic accompany 135 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 2: Head centers and back to work again. If we can 136 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 2: revive in ourselves, then in our youth something of that 137 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 2: basic American's creed. The horizon has never ever been so limitless. 138 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 2: For man stands now on the threshold of his highest adventurable, 139 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 2: his first foltering footsteps into space twenty years from today. 140 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 2: Half of the products you will be using in your 141 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 2: everyday living aren't even in the dictionary. Yet we've got 142 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 2: it made. If we just keep on keeping on, we've 143 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 2: got it made. And if we don't, we will follow 144 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 2: those other great nation states of history into the graveyard 145 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 2: of ignominious oblivion. History promises only this for certain, we 146 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 2: will get exactly what we deserve. 147 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: Man Michael Berry in the system like a tow modern day. 148 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 3: I have always been one nutood for America's public servants 149 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 3: or people who sacrifice for others. And you may not 150 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 3: know this. If we're paying tribute to Paul Harvey. Paul 151 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 3: Harvey's father was a policeman who was killed in the 152 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 3: line of duty and his tribute to policemen. This hits 153 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 3: for me because I've had officers in my family. Of course, 154 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 3: my brother was a police officer. This one hits me 155 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 3: and hits me hard. If you have a policeman in 156 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 3: your life, share this with them. They've probably heard it before, 157 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 3: but there's a good chance they haven't. It's called what 158 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 3: is a policeman? We started the show paying tribute to firefighters, 159 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 3: now we turned to policemen. 160 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 2: A policeman is a composite of what all men are. 161 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 2: I guess, a mingling of saint and center, dust and 162 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 2: deity called statistics wave. The fan over stinkers underscore instances 163 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 2: of dishonesty and brutality because they are news. What that 164 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,719 Speaker 2: really means is that they are exceptional. They are unusual. 165 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 2: They are not commonplace. Buried under the fraud is the fact, 166 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 2: and the fact is that less than one half of 167 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 2: one percent of policemen misfit that uniform, and that is 168 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 2: a better average than you'd find among clergymen. 169 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 1: What is a policeman? 170 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 2: He, of all men, is at once the most needed 171 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:52,959 Speaker 2: and the most wanted, a strangely nameless creature who is 172 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 2: served to his face and pig or worse behind his back. 173 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 2: He must be such a diplomat that he can settle 174 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 2: differences between individuals so that each will I think he won. 175 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,079 Speaker 2: But if a policeman is neat, he's conceited. If he's careless, 176 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 2: he's a bum. If he's pleasant, he's a flirt. If 177 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 2: he's not, he's a grouch. He must make instant decisions, 178 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:11,560 Speaker 2: which would require months for a lawyer. 179 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 1: But if he hurries, he's careless. If he's deliberate, he's lazy. 180 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 2: He must be first to an accident, infallible with the diagnosis. 181 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 2: He must be able to start breathing, stop bleeding, ty splints, 182 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 2: and above all, be sure the victim goes home without 183 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 2: a limp, or expect to be sued. The police officer 184 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 2: must know every gun draw on the run and hit 185 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 2: where it doesn't hurt. He must be able to whip 186 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 2: two men twice his size and half his age without 187 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:38,959 Speaker 2: damaging his uniform, and without being brutal. If you hit him, 188 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 2: he's a coward. If he hits you, he's a bully. 189 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 2: A policeman must know everything and not tell. He must 190 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 2: know where all of the sin is and not partake. 191 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 2: The policeman from a single human hair must be able 192 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,559 Speaker 2: to describe the crime the weatmon the criminal and tell 193 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 2: you where the criminal is hiding. But if he catches 194 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 2: the criminal, he's lucky. If he doesn't, he's a dunch. 195 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 2: If he gets promoted, he has a political poll. If 196 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 2: he doesn't, he's a dullard. The policeman must chase bum 197 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 2: leads to a dead end, stake out ten nights to 198 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 2: tag one witness who saw it happen but refuses to remember. 199 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 2: He runs files and writes reports until his eyes ache 200 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 2: to build a case against some felon who will get 201 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 2: dealed out by a shameless, shamous or an honorable who 202 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 2: isn't honorable. The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, 203 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 2: a diplomat, a tough guy and a gentleman. And of 204 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 2: course he'll have to be a genius because he'll have 205 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 2: to feed a family. It's on a policeman's salary. 206 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 3: You know, one of the things that's near and dear 207 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 3: to my heart is the bylaws by which we operate 208 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 3: this country. Oh, they're not called the bylaws. They're called 209 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,359 Speaker 3: the constitution. And then we have amendments to that constitution. 210 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 3: But they are by laws. That's exactly what they are. 211 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 3: They're beautiful by laws. Paul Harvey says, we have a 212 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 3: say sacred honor to our nation's first citizens. And here 213 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 3: is a wonderful history lesson again. Storytelling to make it 214 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 3: come to life is called our sacred honor Americans. 215 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,839 Speaker 2: The how and the why of our beloved republic are 216 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 2: so much better known and understood than the who. The 217 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 2: United States of America was born in seventeen seventy six, 218 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 2: but it was conceived one hundred and sixty nine years 219 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 2: before that. The earliest settlers had watered the new world 220 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:35,079 Speaker 2: with much sweat. They had built substantial holdings for themselves, 221 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 2: for their families, and when the time came to separate 222 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 2: themselves from a tyranny and ocean away, at best, it 223 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 2: meant starting all over again after. 224 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: The ravages of war. 225 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 2: Researching what you're about to hear gave a whole new 226 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 2: dimension to my reverence for our nation's first citizens. All 227 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 2: others of the world's revolutions before and since were initiated 228 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 2: by men who had nothing to lose, nothing to lose. 229 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 2: Our founders had everything to lose and nothing to gain 230 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 2: except one thing. 231 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:22,679 Speaker 1: Hello Americans, I'm Paul Harvey. 232 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 2: You remember the cherry tree fiction a long time after 233 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,880 Speaker 2: you have forgotten the more earth shaking history making episodes 234 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 2: in the life of George Washington. You have misplaced in 235 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 2: your memory the details of Ben Franklin's statesmanship, but you 236 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 2: remember his flying a kite. Joyce Kilmer was a great 237 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 2: military hero, but the only thing you personally recall about him. 238 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: Is his poetic tribute to trees. 239 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 2: Maybe of this current decade, that which will be remembered 240 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 2: best will not be its wars and its moon rockets, 241 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 2: or its crumbling frontiers, or the giants who. 242 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: Lived and died. 243 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 2: Maybe all that'll survive to linger in the day by 244 00:13:57,240 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 2: day vocabulary of generations yet unborn, may. 245 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 1: The songs of. 246 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 2: A Memphis minstrel, or the reincarnation of electric automobiles. But 247 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 2: for any eve of the fourth of July, I Paul 248 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 2: Harvey do here with bequeath them to you something to remember. 249 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 2: You may not be able to quote one line from 250 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 2: the Declaration of Independence at this moment. Henceforth, you'll always 251 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 2: be able to quote at least one line. So in 252 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 2: the last paragraph, where you will recall when I remind you, 253 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 2: it says we mutually pledge to each other our lives, 254 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 2: our fortunes, and our sacred honor. In the Pennsylvania State 255 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 2: House that's now called Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the best 256 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 2: men from each of the colonies sat down together. This 257 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 2: was a very fortunate hour in our nation's history, one 258 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 2: of those rare occasions in the lives of men when 259 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 2: we had greatness to spare. These were men of means, 260 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 2: well educated. Twenty four were lawyers and jurists. Nine were farmers, 261 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 2: owners of large plantations. On June eleven, a committee sat 262 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 2: down to draw up a declaration of independence. We were 263 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 2: going to tell the British fatherland no more rule by 264 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 2: red coats. Below the dam of ruthless foreign stream of 265 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 2: freedom was running shallow and muddy, and we were going to, 266 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 2: like the fuse to dynamite that dam. This pact, as 267 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 2: Burke later put it, was a partnership between the living 268 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 2: and the dead and the yet unborn. There was no bigotry. 269 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 2: There was no demagogery in this group. All had shared hardships. 270 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 2: Jefferson finished a draft of the document in seventeen days. 271 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 2: Congress adopted it in July, and so much as familiar history, 272 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 2: but now King George third had denounced all rebels in 273 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 2: America as traitors. 274 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 1: Punishment for treason was hanging. 275 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 2: The names now so familiar to you, from the several 276 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 2: signatures on that Declaration of independence. The names were kept 277 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 2: secret for six months, for each new the full meaning 278 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 2: of that magnificent last paragraph, in which his signature pledged 279 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 2: his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor. Fifty six 280 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 2: men placed their names beneath that fledge. Fifty six men 281 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 2: knew when they signed that they were risking everything. They 282 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 2: knew if they won this fight, the best they could 283 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 2: expect would be years of hardship and a struggling nation. 284 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: And if they lost, they'd face a hangman's robe. 285 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 2: I looked at him, and they looked at me, you know, 286 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 2: and I just looked at her, and I have to 287 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 2: just get your stuff and get out. 288 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: To Michael Barry's shoe. I reas over and got a newspaper, 289 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: and I wrote it up, and I slapped him on 290 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: the nose. I said, bad. 291 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 3: Unfortunately, I cannot play the entirety of that piece in 292 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 3: one segment, which is why we cut it up for two. 293 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 3: This is, as Paul Hargy would say, the rest of 294 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 3: the story. It's called our sacred honor. It's a tribute 295 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 3: to ours, the people who created this great nation. I'm 296 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,959 Speaker 3: reading a book by Paul Johnson right now about the 297 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 3: founding of America in Winthrop and Salem, Massachusetts, and Providence, 298 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 3: Rhode Islands and Rhode Island, Roger Williams and the freedom 299 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 3: of religious expression, which was such a big deal, particularly 300 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:30,199 Speaker 3: when you think that we came from England, where the 301 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 3: church was the state, and the state was the church, 302 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 3: the Anglican Church, and you did what the church said 303 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 3: because it had the might of the government behind it. 304 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 3: But many people in this country today believe that freedom 305 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 3: of expression and religion should in some way be curtailed 306 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 3: if it relates to government, whether that's a tax exempt 307 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 3: status or is silly notion people have that the separation 308 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:07,880 Speaker 3: of church and state means you can't talk in the pulpit, 309 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 3: you can't talk at the church, you can't talk as 310 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 3: a Christian leader in a government circle. That's not what 311 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 3: it means. Separation of church and state means keeping the 312 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 3: state out of the church, not the church out of 313 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 3: the state. Make sure you understand that. 314 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 2: In the Pennsylvania State House that's now called Independence Hall 315 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 2: in Philadelphia, the best men from each of the colonies 316 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,199 Speaker 2: sat down together. This was a very fortunate hour in 317 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 2: our nation's history, one of those rare occasions in the 318 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 2: lives of men when we had greatness to spare. These 319 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 2: were men of means, well educated. Twenty four were lawyers 320 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 2: and jurists. Nine were farmers, owners of large plantations. On 321 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 2: June eleven, a committee sat down to draw up a 322 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 2: declaration of independence. We were going to tell the British 323 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,479 Speaker 2: fatherland no more rule my red coats. Below the dam 324 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 2: of ruthless foreign rule, stream of freedom was running shallow 325 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,639 Speaker 2: and muddy, and we were going to like a fuse 326 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 2: to dynamite that dan. This pact, as Burke later put it, 327 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 2: was a partnership between the living and the dead and 328 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 2: the yet unborn. There was no bigotry, there was no 329 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 2: demagogery in this group. All had shared hardships. Jefferson finished 330 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:20,440 Speaker 2: a draft of the document in seventeen days. Congress adopted 331 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 2: it in July, and so much as familiar history, But 332 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 2: now King George third had denounced all rebels in America 333 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 2: as traitors. 334 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 1: Punishment for treason was hanging. 335 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:35,120 Speaker 2: The names now so familiar to you from the several 336 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 2: signatures on that Declaration of Independence. The names were kept 337 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 2: secret for six months for each new the full meaning 338 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:50,440 Speaker 2: of that magnificent last paragraph, in which his signature pledged 339 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 2: his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor. Fifty six 340 00:19:55,680 --> 00:20:00,040 Speaker 2: men placed their names beneath that fledge. Six men. He 341 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 2: knew when they signed that they were risking everything. 342 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: They knew. 343 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,199 Speaker 2: If they won this fight, the best they could expect 344 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,239 Speaker 2: would be years of hardship and a struggling nation. And 345 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 2: if they lost, they'd face a hangman's rope. But they 346 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 2: signed the pledge. And here is the documented fate of 347 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 2: that gallant fifty six Carter Braxton of Virginia, wealthy planter, trader, 348 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 2: saw his ships swept from the seas to pay his debts. 349 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 2: He lost his home and all of his properties, and 350 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,920 Speaker 2: died in rags. Thomas Lynch Junior, who signed that pledge, 351 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:36,160 Speaker 2: was a third generation rice grower aristocrat, large plantation owner. 352 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:40,399 Speaker 2: After he signed, his health failed. His wife and he 353 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 2: set out for France to regain his failing health. Their 354 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 2: ship never got to France was never heard from again. 355 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 2: Thomas McKean of Delaware was so harassed by the enemy 356 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 2: they was forced to move his family five times in 357 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 2: five months. He served in Congress without pay. His family, 358 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 2: in poverty and in hiding. Looted the properties of Ellery 359 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 2: and Climber and Hall and Gwinnett and Walton and Hayward, 360 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 2: Rutledge and Middleton. Thomas Nelson Junior of Virginia raised two 361 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 2: million dollars on his own signature to provision our allies 362 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 2: the French fleet. After the war, he personally paid back. 363 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,439 Speaker 2: The loans wiped out his entire estate, and he was 364 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:25,400 Speaker 2: never reimbursed by his government. In the final battle for Yorktown, 365 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 2: he Nelson urged General Washington to fire on Nelson's own home, 366 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 2: which was occupied by Cornwallis. It was destroyed. Thomas Nelson 367 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 2: Junior had pledged his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor. 368 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,959 Speaker 2: The Hessians seized the home of Francis Hopkinson of New Jersey. 369 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:48,480 Speaker 2: Francis Lewis had his home and everything destroyed his wife imprisoned. 370 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: She died within a few months. 371 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 2: Richard Stockton, who signed that declaration, was captured, mistreated, his 372 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 2: health broken to the extent that he died at fifty one. 373 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: His estate was pillaged. 374 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 2: Thomas Hayward Junior was captured when Charleston fell. John Hart 375 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 2: was driven from his wife's bedside while she was dying. 376 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,400 Speaker 2: Their thirteen children fled in all directions for their lives. 377 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 2: His fields and gristmill were laid waste for more than 378 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,360 Speaker 2: a year. He lived in forests and caves, and returned 379 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 2: home after the war to find his wife, did, his 380 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 2: children gone, his property's gone, and he died a few 381 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 2: weeks later of exhaustion at a broken heart. Lewis Morris 382 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 2: saw his land destroyed, his family scattered. Philip Livingstone died 383 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 2: within a few months from the hardships of the war. 384 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 2: John Hancock history remembers best due to a quirk of fate, 385 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 2: rather than anything. He stood for that great sweeping signature 386 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 2: attesting to his vanity towers over the others. One of 387 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 2: the wealthiest men in New England. And yet he stood 388 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 2: outside Boston one terrible night of the war, and he 389 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 2: said burne Boston, though it makes John Hancock a beggar. 390 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 2: The public good requires it, so he too, lived up 391 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 2: to the pledge. Of the fifty six, few were long 392 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 2: to survive. Five were captured by the British and tortured 393 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 2: before they died. Twelve had their homes from Rhode Island 394 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 2: to Charleston sacked, looted, occupied by the enemy, or burned. 395 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 2: Two lost their sons in the army, one had two 396 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 2: sons captured. Nine of the fifty six died in the war, 397 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,879 Speaker 2: from its hardships or from its more merciful bullets. I 398 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 2: don't know what impression you had had the men who 399 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 2: met that summer in Philadelphia, but I think it's important 400 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,160 Speaker 2: that we remember this about them. They were not poor men. 401 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 2: They were not wild eyed pirates. These were men of means. 402 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 2: They were rich men, most of them, and had enjoyed 403 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 2: much ease and luxury in their personal living. Not hungry men, certainly, 404 00:23:54,920 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 2: not terrorists, not irresponsible malcontents, not fanatic in sendi areas. 405 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 2: These men were prosperous men, wealthy landowners. They were substantially 406 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,000 Speaker 2: secure in their prosperity. 407 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:14,640 Speaker 1: They had everything to lose, but they. 408 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 2: Considered liberty, and this is as much as I'm still 409 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,960 Speaker 2: say it. They had learned at liberty. It was so 410 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 2: much more important than security that they pledged their lives, 411 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:32,640 Speaker 2: their fortunes, and their sacred honor. And they fulfilled their pledge, 412 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 2: and they paid the crust, and freedom was born. 413 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: Michael, do I have a story for you. 414 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,920 Speaker 3: My brother in law murdered to Native Americans. 415 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 1: Michael Berry show. Now you have my attence. 416 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:59,120 Speaker 3: This next piece is perhaps Paul Harvey's most famous. It's 417 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 3: called If I Were the Devil. You may have heard 418 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 3: it before. Heck, you may have heard it multiple times before. 419 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 3: If you've listened to our show for any length of time, 420 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 3: I know you've heard it. Here Paul Harvey uses a 421 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 3: wonderful technique to talk about the downfall of America. And 422 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 3: this is older than many people in our audience. And 423 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 3: you may say, well, how did he know about all 424 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 3: that back then? Because nothing changes, nothing changes. The temptation 425 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 3: to be distracted by other things than your family did 426 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 3: not begin with the cell phone. The temptation to focus 427 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:47,800 Speaker 3: on what doesn't matter and to chase false idols rather 428 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 3: than what matters, that didn't start in the modern era. 429 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 3: That's as old as mankind. The temptation to serve yourself 430 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 3: and not those you love, The temptation to let time 431 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 3: get away from you. Didn't start with sitting in front 432 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 3: of the computer for four hours or scrolling on TikTok. 433 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 3: That is as old as time. Those are failings of 434 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 3: human beings. Life is what happens on the way to 435 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 3: do what you'd planned to do. Life's what happens right here, 436 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:31,719 Speaker 3: right now, on Thursday afternoon or Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, 437 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 3: when what you really want to do is do something 438 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 3: other than play with your kids or your grandkids, or 439 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 3: coach them, or go throw a ball with them, or 440 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 3: help them with their homework. 441 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: You don't want to do that. You do something else. 442 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 3: You want to do something more self serving, and you 443 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 3: want to do something more self serving all day, every day, 444 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 3: in bit by bit, but in your mind you want 445 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 3: to be a good mom, will be a really good mom, 446 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 3: really good dad. Well, that means doing what you need 447 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 3: to do when you least want to do it. And 448 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 3: that's the hard part. That's what makes it hard. You know, 449 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,680 Speaker 3: this is such a wonderful country, and I. 450 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 1: Don't believe that in most of the world. 451 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 3: I've traveled a pretty good bit that people love their 452 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 3: country the way we love our country. They may love 453 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 3: their country because it's their country, but they don't love 454 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 3: the things about that country that make it a country. 455 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 3: We are the United States of America because we were 456 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 3: a breakaway nation that sought to create something. We were 457 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 3: the proof of concept of self governance without a king, 458 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 3: without a monarchy. 459 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:54,880 Speaker 1: We were. 460 00:27:55,400 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 3: We became the proof that we could do this Benjamin 461 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:06,919 Speaker 3: Franklin's great line, a republic if we can keep it. 462 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 3: It's not easy to keep. There are so many temptations 463 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 3: as a nation to spend our time and waste our 464 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 3: time and be distracted by things rather than doing the 465 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:23,919 Speaker 3: equivalent of helping our kid with homework, teaching our kid discipline, 466 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:29,120 Speaker 3: because right now we'd really rather do this silly thing. 467 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 3: And that's important to understand. It's important to understand that 468 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 3: maintaining this great nation takes a lot of work. It's hard, 469 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 3: and we're gonna lose a lot of battles. We got 470 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 3: cheated in twenty twenty. We got cheated out of that election. 471 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 3: There's no question. We watched Donald Trump have to be 472 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 3: in I felt like Seamus when they were when they 473 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 3: were killing William Wall us in braveheart, he was having 474 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 3: to witness this awful, awful transgression, this awful injustice. We 475 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 3: have had to be witnesses to awful violations of everything 476 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 3: this nation stands for, by the Obamas and the Clintons 477 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 3: and the Bidens and beyond the media and the Cheneys 478 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 3: and kin Singers and Rubens. 479 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: We've had to be. 480 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 3: Witnesses to a history that I'm not proud of or 481 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 3: happy about and getting back up. And that's the beauty. 482 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,960 Speaker 3: That's why I love to read the emails. You said, 483 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 3: is how many of you get up every day and 484 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 3: you don't make a dime off of politics. You ain't 485 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 3: trying to sell anything to the government, not one thing. 486 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 3: But you get up every single day and try to 487 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 3: make our country better, try to make your household better, 488 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 3: try to make your family better, your neighbors better, kids better, 489 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,959 Speaker 3: your students better, your employees better. And that's who our 490 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 3: listeners are, which is pretty cool. People ask me why 491 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 3: I still have so much hope for this country. I 492 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,239 Speaker 3: read my emails, I hear from you, I hear what 493 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:14,960 Speaker 3: you say here. It is in a way let me 494 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 3: not know what we're talking. It's called if I were the devil. 495 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 1: If I were the devil. 496 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:25,640 Speaker 2: If I were the devil, if I were the Prince 497 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 2: of darkness, I'd want to engulf the whole world in darkness, 498 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 2: and i'd have a third of its real estate and 499 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 2: four fifths of its population. But I wouldn't be happy 500 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 2: until I have seized the ripest apple on the tree 501 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 2: the So I'd set about, however necessary to take over 502 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 2: the United States. 503 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 1: I'd subvert the churches. First. 504 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,959 Speaker 2: I'd begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom 505 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 2: of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I 506 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 2: whispered to Eve, do as you please. 507 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 1: To the young, I would whisper that the Bible is 508 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: a myth. 509 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 2: I would convince them that man created God instead of 510 00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 2: the other way around. I would confide that what's the that 511 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 2: is good, and what's good is square, and the old 512 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 2: I would teach to pray after me our father, which 513 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 2: aren't in Washington. 514 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: And then I'd get organized. 515 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,400 Speaker 2: I'd educate authors in how to make the low rid 516 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 2: literature exciting, so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting. 517 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 2: I'd threatened TV with dirtier movies, and vice versa. 518 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: I peddle narcotics, to whom I could. 519 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 2: I'd sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. 520 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: I'd tranquilize the rest with pills. 521 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 2: If I were the Devil, I'd soon have families at 522 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 2: war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations 523 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 2: at war with themselves until each in its turn was consumed, 524 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 2: and with promises of higher ratings. I'd have mesmerizing media 525 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 2: fanning the flames. If I were the Devil, I would 526 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 2: encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions, 527 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,400 Speaker 2: just let those run wild until before you knew it. 528 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 2: You'd have to have drug snipping dogs and metal detectors 529 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 2: at every schoolhouse door. Within a decade, i'd have prisons overflowing. 530 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 2: I'd have judges promoting pornography. Soon I could evict God 531 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 2: from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, and then from 532 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 2: the houses of Congress and in his own churches. I 533 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 2: would substitute psychology for religion and deify science. I would 534 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,840 Speaker 2: lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls and 535 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 2: church money. If I were the Devil, I'd make the 536 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 2: symbol of Easter an egg, and the symbol of Christmas 537 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,160 Speaker 2: a bottle. If I were the devil, I'd take from 538 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 2: those who have and give to those who wanted, until 539 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,120 Speaker 2: I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. 540 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 1: What will you bet? 541 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 2: I couldn't get whole states to promote gambling as. 542 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,480 Speaker 1: The way to get rich. I would caution. 543 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:55,160 Speaker 2: Against extremes in hard work, in patriotism, in moral conduct. 544 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 2: I would convince the young that marriage is old fashioned, 545 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:04,440 Speaker 2: is more fun, but what you see on TV is 546 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 2: the way to be. 547 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:07,880 Speaker 1: And thus I could undress. 548 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 2: You in public, and I could lure you into bed 549 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 2: with diseases for which there is no cure. In other words, 550 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 2: if I were the devil, I just keep right on 551 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 2: doing what he's doing. 552 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 1: Paul Harvey, good day. 553 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 3: Elvis has left for k Thank 554 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 1: You, and good night,