Speaker 1: Today we celebrate the two hundred and forty eighth anniversary
Speaker 1: of the independence of the United States of America. It
Speaker 1: is July fourth, twenty twenty four, one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: three days to go until election day and forty six
Speaker 1: until the Democratic National Convention. This is the warning today
Speaker 1: we celebrate as Americans today that ruptured history, that began
Speaker 1: a new epoch. When the white flag flew over the
Speaker 1: British lines at York Town, the young major general commanding
Speaker 1: American forces, Gilbert Dumontier, the Marquis de Lafayette, remarked, humanity
Speaker 1: has its victory, liberty has its country. Lafayette prophesied that
Speaker 1: the new world, the United States, would be the salvation
Speaker 1: of the old and it was. American forces stormed the
Speaker 1: beaches of France and liberated Europe from the darkness of
Speaker 1: fascism in the middle years of the twentieth century. The
Speaker 1: July fourth independence of the United States of America gave
Speaker 1: rise to the most powerful nation the world has ever known.
Speaker 1: We are a nation today of three hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: million people. Since our beginning, there have only ever been
Speaker 1: even hundred million of US. At that beginning, there were
Speaker 1: three million Americans three million who rebelled against the king,
Speaker 1: thirteen states on the eastern seaboard of the United States
Speaker 1: that would go on to become what Churchill called the
Speaker 1: Great Republic. We are the only country made up of
Speaker 1: all of the peoples of the world where every known
Speaker 1: language is commonly spoken every day. Our nation, despite all
Speaker 1: of its flaws and manifest hypocrisies, has done more good
Speaker 1: in the world than all of the other nations put
Speaker 1: together since the beginning of time. If the measurement is liberation, clothing, feeding, curing,
Speaker 1: the record of the United States and the improvement of
Speaker 1: humanity is clear, and our country over time has moved
Speaker 1: closer to its goals, to its charter. Today, it is
Speaker 1: true in America that all of us are created equal
Speaker 1: and now by a creator, with inalienable rights that include life,
Speaker 1: liberty in the pursuit of happiness. Think about it, How
Speaker 1: radical a concept that the purpose of life of government
Speaker 1: is to secure the pursuit of happiness, not the service
Speaker 1: of a king or a dictator. This is a nation
Speaker 1: that places the citizen at the center. And we have
Speaker 1: rights and freedoms that have been handed down to us
Speaker 1: for us to be trustees of for every future American
Speaker 1: not yet born, we are obligated to hand to them
Speaker 1: a country that is stronger, closer to its ideas and
Speaker 1: its ideals. There has never been a tranquil or genteel
Speaker 1: period in American history. There has never been calm seas
Speaker 1: and placid waters. Never. This is a moment where Americans
Speaker 1: live in a tumultuous time, where there is an opportunity
Speaker 1: to participate, to practice citizenship because our democracy in many
Speaker 1: ways is on the line. What will you do? Will
Speaker 1: you be in the fight or will you be on
Speaker 1: the sidelines. July fourth is a day famous around the world,
Speaker 1: a day of defiance and courage and hope. July fourth
Speaker 1: is a America's birthday. It's one of the most important
Speaker 1: days in all of the history of the world. And
Speaker 1: here we are, two years shy of the two hundred
Speaker 1: and fiftieth anniversary of the American Revolution of its declaration
Speaker 1: of independence, in the middle of a most momentous election.
Speaker 1: The stakes are high on this July fourth. Freedom as
Speaker 1: it has ever been is precious, it's fragile, and it's
Speaker 1: on the line. Always. We should remember that this July fourth,
Speaker 1: it is a day of hope and optimism, the day
Speaker 1: of gratitude, of remembrance and banks and responsibility and obligation.
Speaker 1: What a thing it is to be an American. We
Speaker 1: are the luckiest people on Earth. Happy July fourth. I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning and I invite you
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