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Before I go to anything else, I do wish to wish you all a happy Independence Day. It's freedom. It's one generation away from being lost. It's a republic if we can keep it. There are so many famous lines. but I want to go to the most famous lines here

right now to start. Before I do anything else, let's do this. In Congress, July 4, 1776, the unanimous

declaration of the 13 United States of America.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,

and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them,

a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes

which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their

creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of

happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men deriving their just

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