The Importance of Independence Day

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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This essay was originally published in today’s edition of Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper. Maria Shriver is an exceptional human being. She is also supremely talented. There are few people who have the ability to genuinely inspire and lift people up. Sunday Paper captures that spirit. It will never fail to inform, inspire and stir optimism. Our political debates in America are often dark. Our culture often seems rotten. Much of that is illusory. The reality is that there is good all around us. Sunday Paper is good for the spirit. I encourage you to subscribe. To become a The Warning Premium Member with access to premium content visit: https://thewarning.supercast.com/

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0:11.0	warning premium community by clicking the link in the description to this episode. The Meaning of Independence Day.
0:30.9	This Tuesday, July 4, 2023, marks the 248th anniversary of the independence of the United States of America.
0:44.6	On that night, Americans across a vast geography will look up into the sky at fireworks, marking
0:52.7	the occasion. They are the fulfillment of a wish.
0:57.6	The wish came from one of our founders, a brilliant, talented, passionate man who could be
1:04.2	brittle, easily provoked, arrogant, and occasionally distempered.
1:13.4	John Adams said he hoped, quote,
1:20.0	Independence Day will be the most memorable epic in the history of America.
1:27.0	I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be solemnized
1:31.0	with pomp and parade with shoes, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations
1:37.4	from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.
1:45.8	End quote.
1:47.5	This is our day.
1:50.3	We all share it together, equally, for we are all Americans together.
1:57.2	We are citizens of a republic that has endured through 248 years of challenge,
2:07.6	heartbreak, triumph, loss, injustice, war, suffering, and turmoil. When the Revolutionary War
2:16.8	was won, there were three million Americans and only 13 states.
2:23.3	700,000 people were enslaved.
2:28.3	Today, there are 334 million of us.
2:41.1	We are the descendants of both the founding generation and the peoples of every nation on the earth. The United States of America is the only nation on the planet that is made up
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