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Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael

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Speaker 1: Verry Show is on the air.

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Speaker 2: It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.

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Speaker 3: I can feel a good one coming on.

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Speaker 4: It's the Michael Berry Show. Any attempt to restrict drinking

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Speaker 4: and driving here is viewed by some as downright undemocratic.

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Speaker 5: Great Russian Ball loved America so much that he couldn't

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Speaker 5: stop talking about it. Rush loved to see people succeed

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Speaker 5: in life, and he knew that America provided that opportunity

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Speaker 5: more than anyone else will face the world throughout history.

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Speaker 5: Rush took his love for our country and created a

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Speaker 5: new radio format. And that's what I'm in today, a

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Speaker 5: format talking about America. America was Russia's passion, and you

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Speaker 5: heard it every time he turned on that golden eippy microphone.

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Speaker 5: Rush firmly believe in American exceptionalism, and you could hear

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Speaker 5: that passion in everything he said.

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Speaker 3: Here's what American exceptionalism is not.

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Speaker 6: It is not that we are better people. It is

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Speaker 6: not that we are superior people. It is not that

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Speaker 6: we are smarter people. It is not that God loves

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Speaker 6: us and hates everybody else. It is not that God

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Speaker 6: prefers us. It is not that God doesn't prefer anybody else.

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Speaker 6: American exceptionalism has nothing to do with anything but freedom

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Speaker 6: and liberty. Here is what American exceptionalism is. By the way,

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Speaker 6: this is one of the fundamental reasons why I got

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Speaker 6: so excited when presented with the idea of writing a

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Speaker 6: book about the truth of American history in stages and

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Speaker 6: various elements for young people. My book Rush Revere in

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Speaker 6: the Brave Pilgrims is all about the exceptionalism of those people.

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Speaker 3: So what is it? Well, if you know the history

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Speaker 3: of the world, read your Bible, read.

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Speaker 6: Whatever historical account of humanity you hold dear, and what

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Speaker 6: you'll read around is human tyranny. You'll read of bondage,

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Speaker 6: you'll read of slavery. The vast majority of the people,

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Speaker 6: the vast majority of the human beings who have lived

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Speaker 3: The vast majority. It isn't even close.

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Speaker 6: The vast majority of the people of this world, since

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Speaker 6: the beginning of time have never known the kind of

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Speaker 6: liberty and freedom that's taken for granted every day in

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Speaker 6: this country. Most people have lived in abject fear of

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Speaker 6: their leaders. Most people have lived in abject fear of whoever.

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Speaker 3: Held power over them.

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Speaker 6: Most people in the world have not had plentiful access.

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Speaker 3: To food and clean water.

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Speaker 6: It was a major daily undertaking for most people to

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Speaker 3: Just surviving.

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Speaker 6: Was the primary occupation of most people in the world.

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Speaker 6: The history of the world is dictatorship, tyranny, whatever you

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Speaker 6: want to call it, subjugation of populations. And then along

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Speaker 6: came the United States of America. Pilgrims were the first

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Speaker 6: to come here seeking freedom from all of that. They

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Speaker 6: exodus from Europe to this country.

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Speaker 3: If people of the same.

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Speaker 6: Mindset, they simply wanted to escape the tyranny of their

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Speaker 6: ordinary lives. This country was founded, for the first time

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Speaker 6: on the belief that leaders serve the population. This country

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Speaker 6: the first in history. And this is the exception, ex

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Speaker 6: cept except the exception to the rule is what American

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Speaker 3: And because of this liberty and freedom.

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Speaker 6: That our country exists because the founders recognize it comes

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Speaker 6: from God. It's part of the natural yearning of the

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Speaker 6: not granted by Putin, It's not granted by Obama or

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Speaker 6: any other human being.

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Speaker 3: We are created with the natural.

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Speaker 6: Yearning to be free, and it is other men and

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Speaker 6: leaders throughout human history who have suppressed that and imprisoned

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Speaker 3: The US is the first time in the history of

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Speaker 6: Was organized with a constitution laying out the rules that

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Speaker 6: it had ever happened. That's American exceptionalism. With his finger

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Speaker 6: on the pulse, the King of King continues on The

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Speaker 5: Eighty two, Robin Williams was cast in the role of

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Speaker 5: It's a very Different Time. Robin Williams was not only

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Speaker 5: dressed up as the flag, but he spoke on its behalf.

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Speaker 7: I don't and I'm the one that they're thinking about. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: I'm the Stars and Stripe Forever star Spangled banner. You

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Speaker 7: can call me old boy, but let's just keep it simple.

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Speaker 8: Just call me Flag. I say, can you see walker?

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Speaker 9: Fuck?

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Speaker 7: You probably don't recognize me? Say who's out? Evil for evil?

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Speaker 10: No way?

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Speaker 7: Yeah you see you can't recognize me because.

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Speaker 3: I'm in my BIS day suit.

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Speaker 8: Yes, I'm wearing the original thirteen here.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I remember Miss Betsy saying that going, Oh.

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Speaker 9: This could be the start.

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Speaker 3: Of something big wool. I'm dumping a teen.

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Speaker 7: Yes, I was born in June thirteenth, seventeen seventy seven.

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Speaker 8: That makes me a Gemini, unpredictable crazy.

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Speaker 7: Yes, I like the outdoors and I'm the life of

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Speaker 7: any party, whether it be Republican, Democrat, independent, Socialist, anything, libertine.

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Speaker 3: I'll be there.

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Speaker 8: You know, I'm two hundred and four years old.

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Speaker 7: People say, Flag, how do you stay so young? Is

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Speaker 7: it jogging?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 8: Is it tennis?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: It's waving.

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Speaker 7: Talking about you know, we're talking about billowing, surling and unfurling.

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Speaker 7: Richard Simmons, eat your heart out, well, Cavin has noise

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Speaker 7: been easy for me?

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Speaker 3: Though I had a tough puberty.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Wolfs famine invasion in eighteen sixty one. I had

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Speaker 7: a little skin problem that broke out into thirty four stars.

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Speaker 7: But now, well, little patience, and look what we got.

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Speaker 9: Now.

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Speaker 7: Look at this hold on here hah, everybody's on here.

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Speaker 7: Look at this ailasayn't make it. Yeah, we got to Tennessee,

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Speaker 7: how ye ed in today? Here's Vermont. You can't get

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Speaker 7: that from here. And there's California for sure, totally.

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Speaker 9: Yes.

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Speaker 7: I haven't tried before. You know, I had a tough

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Speaker 7: time for a while. I've been in a lot of wars.

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Speaker 7: They've fired missiles and muskets at me. But you know,

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Speaker 7: come to the dawns only likes I'm still there.

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 8: You know, I've been made.

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Speaker 7: Into everything from designer jeans to T shirts and I've.

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Speaker 8: Even been a cake for Mick Jagger.

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Speaker 10: All right, the rock. But people haven't always been respectful

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Speaker 7: Sometimes it's been tough that when some people try and

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Speaker 7: of Americans too. But I don't let it get me

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Speaker 7: down because I'm not a stay at home kind of flag.

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Speaker 7: You know, I've been to Europe, I've been to both

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Speaker 8: I was at Yojima recently.

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Speaker 3: I even't been to the Moon.

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Speaker 11: Our fight away.

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Speaker 7: What you see me in all sorts of different postures.

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Speaker 7: When I'm like this, I means everything is okay. When

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Speaker 7: I'm up side down, put on your may west and

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Speaker 3: But when I'm like this, well that's not.

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Speaker 7: My favorite position, because well that's half masted, don't.

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Speaker 8: I don't mean to bump you out.

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Speaker 7: I didn't come here to depressure, but I gotta sudy something. Honestly,

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Speaker 7: I haven't getting out much lately. I guess it's not

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Speaker 8: Up the flag anymore.

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Speaker 12: You know.

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Speaker 7: Muffling and I have a flag, but we haven't found

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Speaker 13: Hey, but look at it this way. Don't look at

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Speaker 13: it saluting me. Look at it saluting yourselves. You know, Hey,

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Speaker 13: I'm just a flag, a symbol.

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Speaker 3: You're the people.

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Speaker 7: If I may say some from here, long, may you wait?

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Speaker 3: You've got to Michael Berry's show.

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Speaker 2: Quiet Show.

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Speaker 4: I was just looking over the preparations and thinking about saying.

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Speaker 2: That we had back in Hollywood about never doing a

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Speaker 4: You can rest assured I wouldn't even think about trying

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Speaker 4: to compete to the fireworks this way, especially on the

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Speaker 4: fourth of July. My remarks tonight will be brief, but

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Speaker 4: it's worth remembering that all the.

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Speaker 2: Celebration of this day is rooted in history.

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Speaker 4: Ordered that shortly after the Declaration of Independence were signed

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Speaker 3: And drawn up parades.

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Speaker 4: But a contrast with the sober scene that has taken

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Speaker 2: It was noted at the time that they pledged their lives,

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Speaker 2: Each of those men knew the penalty for high treatment

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Speaker 4: We must all hang together, Benjamin Franklin said, or assuredly,

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Speaker 4: we will all hang separately. And John Hancock, it is said,

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Speaker 2: Could see it without his factors.

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Speaker 4: They were brave, they stayed raid, through all the bloodshed

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Speaker 2: Their courage created a nation built.

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Speaker 4: On a universal claim to human digmare, on the proposition

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Speaker 4: a future of freedom. For just a moment, let us

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Speaker 4: listen to the words again. We hold these truths to

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Speaker 2: Equal, that they are endowed by.

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Speaker 4: Their creedy with certain unalienable rights, that among these out

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Speaker 4: of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Last night,

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Speaker 4: when we read Rededicated Miss Liberty and Relive her Torch,

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Speaker 4: we reflected on all the millions who came here in

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Speaker 4: We reflected too, on their courage and becoming great distances

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Speaker 4: to their children and their children's children the hope symbolized

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Speaker 4: in this statue.

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Speaker 2: He are just behind us, the hope that is America.

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Speaker 2: It is a hope that someday every people in every nation.

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Speaker 4: Of the world will know the blessings of the liberty,

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Speaker 4: and it's the hope of millions all around the world.

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Speaker 4: In the last few years, I've spoken in Westminster to

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Speaker 4: the mother of parliaments at Versailles, where French kings and

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Speaker 4: world leaders have made war in peace. I bid to

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Speaker 4: I view here tonight the man, the mighty Uss Kennedy

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Speaker 4: All through our history, our presidents and leaders of slogan

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Speaker 4: Then when both had retired, Jefferson in sixty eight to

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Speaker 4: And fellow Americans falls to us to keep faith over

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Speaker 2: In our past.

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Speaker 4: Believe me, if there's one impression I carried with me

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Speaker 2: And aspirations for the future of the world. And it

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Speaker 4: So tonight we are for reaffirmed that jee and jamti,

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Speaker 2: To his land. And I thought Americans were going around

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Speaker 1: People need to make informed decisions, and you're giving them

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Speaker 5: this site that had inspired such awe. The poem she

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Speaker 5: an anthem for Independence Day. I love this song. I

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Speaker 12: The beautiful, who beautiful? He wroes crude in labors, who more?

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Speaker 3: The self.

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Speaker 9: Simple?

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Speaker 3: America America.

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Speaker 9: Make got that gold refined success, Be nobless ever again.

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Speaker 14: Den You know when I was in school week to

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Speaker 9: You to that spacious guys, I am the wave scream.

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Speaker 14: Run the fruited plain. When I wait a minute, I'm

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Speaker 9: You know, God don't shine his race on me? He

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Speaker 11: Shame something.

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Speaker 3: You are going.

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Speaker 9: Clown.

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Speaker 3: You called me.

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Speaker 9: Every month.

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