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Music. Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome.

It is the Eric Erickson Show. 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 4th, 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 powers from the consent of the

governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right

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