1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Let me start by praising those of you who didn't 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:08,879 Speaker 1: get the day off today, whether you be a firefighter 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:17,639 Speaker 1: or police officer, small business owner, provider of services, provider 4 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: of whatever it is that you contribute to keep things moving. 5 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: Maybe you would really really like to be off today, 6 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 1: but you can't afford to. Times are tough, or maybe 7 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: someone else needs you. Whether you are getting paid for 8 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: delivering your service today, or you do it for a 9 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: loved one or a friend, whoever, that is a pat 10 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: on the back to you. Sometimes it's just nice to 11 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 1: know that you're appreciated, or even if not appreciated, acknowledged, 12 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: so we acknowledge you on your way to work. For 13 00:00:55,960 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: many of you, you are today getting up and getting 14 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: ready to host the family who's coming over, maybe a 15 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: company picnic, maybe a church related event, whatever it is 16 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: that you are doing on this day, or maybe just 17 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: maybe you're taking a day to yourself, and that is 18 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 1: perfectly fine as well. For a lot of our folks. 19 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: That is like my wife outside gardening, or maybe that's 20 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 1: cleaning out the garage, one of my favorite things to 21 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: do in the world, or maybe that's gassing up the 22 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 1: vehicles and washing them off, cleaning the House, organizing, doing 23 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: the finances, or whatever it is that you're doing on 24 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: your July fourth. We're honored to be with you. Might 25 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: I recommend as an exercise that you will find a 26 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: little awkward at first, but once you dive in and 27 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: commit to it, very rewarding. You can find it online 28 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: the Declaration of Independence. The vote was actually on July second, 29 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:11,959 Speaker 1: but the document wasn't finished until July fourth. It really 30 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: is a beautiful statement of we're not continuing down this line. 31 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: We will no longer be subjected to the evils you've 32 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: put us under. We were born under your reign as 33 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: the king, and we will no longer be your subjects. 34 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: It literally inspired a world and has for two hundred 35 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: and fifty years. That's not just puffery. That's not just 36 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: pretty talk. That's not just patriotism and Americana. 37 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 2: That is real. 38 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: That is real, That is glorious. That is our birthright. 39 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: That happened. We had nothing to do with it. We 40 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: were just key enough to be born into it. Take 41 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: a moment read that document. You'll be impressed. 42 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 3: Michael Berry's show, This great Country America is unique in 43 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:19,679 Speaker 3: that it offers anyone and everyone the opportunity to succeed. 44 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: You can come from nothing. And if you study and 45 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,839 Speaker 1: you work hard, and you sacrifice, and you delay gratification, 46 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: you make good decisions, you can be successful. That is 47 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: the American dream. Opportunity. It's not guaranteed, it's not assured, 48 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: the opportunity to fail and then try again. That's why 49 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: people from all over the world make their way to 50 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: this country. That's why Ronald Reagan called America the shining 51 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: City upon a hill. What a beautiful line. One thing 52 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: that we used to take for granted was that Hollywood 53 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,839 Speaker 1: loved America as much as we did. Ronald Reagan surely did. 54 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: One of my favorite pieces of audio is John Wayne 55 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: talking about American opportunity. I love the stars of film 56 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: and television singing God bless America. At the end, boy, 57 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: I wish we could have that again. 58 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 4: American opportunity has no limits, has been known to knock 59 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 4: more than once. How about you, very young people who 60 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 4: see a tough life ahead. Well, when Lee surrendered to 61 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 4: Grant at Appomattox, Booker T. Washington was a nine year 62 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 4: old slave. Yet by the time he was twenty eight, 63 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 4: he became president of Tuskegee Institute, and at eight months 64 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 4: Neil Armstrong took his first small baby step toward mankind 65 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 4: and fell flat on his face. At six years old, 66 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 4: Nicky Mannel was settling for a base on ball. At 67 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 4: seven Wilt Chamberlain nailed to practice soop Overy's garage without 68 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 4: a ladder, And at eight Charles Lindberg was flying a kite, 69 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,039 Speaker 4: wondering how it feel to be up that high. At nine, 70 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 4: bird back erect I was thinking the piano lessons that 71 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 4: never end. How many of you are pushing fifty in 72 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 4: complaining that the country. 73 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 3: Has gone to hell? 74 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 4: Christmas Addicts was in his forties when he died on 75 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 4: State Street in Boston, fighting for the freedom that we share. 76 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 3: And John F. 77 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 4: Kennedy was forty four when he asked not what his 78 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 4: country could do for him, but what he could do 79 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 4: for his country. And how many of you over sixty 80 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 4: five are just settling down, not arrest after a busy life. Well, 81 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 4: a fellow by the name of Eisenhower, who had already 82 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 4: lived one lifetime as a soldier, was re elected to 83 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 4: the presidency when he was sixty seven years young. Well, 84 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 4: by now I've made my point or I never will. 85 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 4: Oh there's one other thing. Every man and woman or 86 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 4: child I've ever known, met, seen, or heard of wants 87 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 4: one thing more than anything else in the world. Not 88 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 4: one thing is tomorrow. Tomorrow. That's the only thing any 89 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,359 Speaker 4: of us have going for us. And I believe this. 90 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 4: If tomorrow, all of us, every single one of us, 91 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 4: gets out of bed and says, this is my country 92 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 4: and I'm going to do good for it, We'll make 93 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 4: the greatest step forward since a pilgrim's foot found Plymouth Rock. 94 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 3: Tomorrow. 95 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 4: Remember, this is my country and I'm going to do 96 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 4: good for it. Just might work. We'll never know unless 97 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 4: we give it a fair try. Oh yeah, and there's 98 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 4: one other thing I'll say tomorrow, because I said every 99 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 4: day of my life. God bless America. 100 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 3: You're listening to the Michael Berry Shows a. 101 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: Special treat for me. On this July fourth, we have 102 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: stage actor Max MacLean reading one of the greatest documents 103 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: ever written, the Declaration of Independence. I know you've read it, 104 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 1: I know you've heard it, but listen to it with 105 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: fresh ears anew. 106 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 2: In Congress July fourth, seventeen seventy six, the unanimous Declaration 107 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 2: of the thirteen United States of America, When in the 108 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 2: course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people 109 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 2: to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, 110 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 2: and to assume among the powers of the earth the 111 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 2: separate and equal station to which the laws of nature 112 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 2: and of Nature's God entitle them. A decent respect to 113 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 2: the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the 114 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 2: causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these 115 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 2: truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, 116 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 2: that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, 117 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 2: that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 118 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 2: That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, 119 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 2: deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. 120 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 2: That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, 121 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 2: it is the right of the people to alter or 122 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 2: to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its 123 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 2: foundation on such principles, in organizing its powers in such 124 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 2: forms as to them shall seem most likely to affect 125 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 2: their safety and happiness. Prudence indeed, will dictate that government's 126 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 2: long established should not be changed for light and transient causes, 127 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 2: and accordingly all experience has shown that mankind are more 128 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 2: disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right 129 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 2: themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 130 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 2: But when a long train of abuses and usurpationients, pursuing 131 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 2: invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them 132 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 2: under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, 133 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 2: to throw off such government, and to provide new guards 134 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 2: for their future security. Such has been the patients sufferance 135 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 2: of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which 136 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 2: constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The 137 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 2: history of the present King of Great Britain is a 138 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 2: history of repeated injuries and usurpationients, all having in direct 139 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 2: object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. 140 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 2: To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. 141 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 2: He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome 142 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 2: and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his 143 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 2: governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance unless 144 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 2: suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained, 145 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 2: And when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend 146 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 2: to them. He has refused to pass other laws for 147 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 2: the accommodation of large districts of people unless those people 148 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 2: would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a 149 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 2: right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He 150 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 2: has called together legislative bodies that places unusual, uncomfortable, and 151 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,839 Speaker 2: distant from the depository of their public records, for the 152 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 2: sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. 153 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 2: He has dissolved represented houses repeatedly for opposing with manly 154 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 2: firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He 155 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 2: has refused, for a long time, after such desolutions, to 156 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 2: cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers incapable 157 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 2: of annihilation have returned to the people at large for 158 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 2: their exercise. The state remaining in the meantime exposed to 159 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 2: all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within, 160 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 2: he has endeavored to prevent the population of these states. 161 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 2: For that purpose, obstructing the laws of naturalization of foreigners, 162 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 2: refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and 163 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 2: raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has 164 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 2: obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent to 165 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 2: laws for establishing judiciary powers, he has made judges dependent 166 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 2: on his will alone for the tenure of their offices 167 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 2: and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has 168 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 2: erected a multitude of new officers, and sent hither swarms 169 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 2: of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. 170 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 2: He is kept among us in times of peace standing 171 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 2: armies without the consent of our legislatures. He has effected 172 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:07,599 Speaker 2: to render the military independent of and superior to, the 173 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 2: civil power. He has combined with others to subject us 174 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 2: to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by 175 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 2: our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation. 176 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 2: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us, for 177 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 2: protecting them by a mock trial from punishment for any 178 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 2: murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states, 179 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 2: For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world, 180 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 2: for imposing taxes on us without our consent, for depriving us, 181 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 2: in many cases of the benefits of trial by jury, 182 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 2: for transporting us beyond seize to be tried, for pretended offenses, 183 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,079 Speaker 2: for abolishing the free system of English laws in a 184 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 2: neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, 185 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 2: so as to render it at once an example and 186 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 2: fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies. 187 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 2: For taking away our charters, abolishing ours the most valuable laws, 188 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 2: in altering fundamentally the forms of our governments, For suspending 189 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 2: our own legislators, and declaring themselves invested with power to 190 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 2: legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated 191 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 2: government here by declaring us out of his protection and 192 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 2: waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged 193 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 2: our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of 194 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 2: our people. He is at this time transporting large armies 195 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:30,439 Speaker 2: of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, 196 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 2: and tyranny already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy 197 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 2: scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy 198 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 2: the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our 199 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 2: fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear 200 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 2: arms against their country, to become the executioners of their 201 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 2: friends and brethren, or to for themselves by their hands. 202 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 2: He has excited domestic insurrections among us, and has endeavored 203 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 2: to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless 204 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 2: Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished 205 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 2: destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions. In every stage 206 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,679 Speaker 2: of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress in the 207 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 2: most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered only 208 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 2: by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked 209 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 2: by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit 210 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 2: to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have 211 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 2: we been wanting an attention to our British brethren. We 212 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 2: have warned them from time to time of attempts by 213 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 2: their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We 214 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 2: have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and 215 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 2: settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, 216 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 2: and we have conjured them, by the ties of our 217 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 2: common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt 218 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:00,160 Speaker 2: our connections and correspondence, they too have been death the 219 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 2: voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must therefore acquiesce 220 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 2: in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them 221 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 2: as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war 222 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 2: in peace. 223 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 3: Friends. 224 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:18,319 Speaker 2: We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America 225 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 2: in General, Congress Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of 226 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 2: the World for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in 227 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 2: the name and by the authority of the good people 228 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 2: of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare that these United 229 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 2: Colonies are, and of right ought to be free and 230 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 2: independent states, That they are absolved from all allegiance to 231 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 2: the British Crown, and that all political connection between them 232 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 2: and the State of Great Britain is and ought to 233 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 2: be totally dissolved. And that as free and independent states, 234 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 2: they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, 235 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 2: establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things 236 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 2: which independent states may of right do. And for the 237 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 2: support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the 238 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 2: protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other 239 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 2: our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. 240 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:21,239 Speaker 3: You're listening to the Michael Berry's Show.