Our flag has changed, here with 48 stars, as has our country but our love of freedom has never changed.
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Everyday, Americans across our land and across the planet are working to hold our freedoms. All Americans by refusing to be anything but free hold our freedoms.
On this day, the Fourth of July, we celebrate the freedoms that our forefathers fought and died to obtain for themselves and all their progeny, and to set forever a shining example for all to follow.
To preserve those freedoms, our Founding Fathers labored to combine their aspirations, their experiences, and their studies into a government that would be a protector of those freedoms. They experimented but ultimately created the Constitution of the United States by which we all now live, to build a living fortress around the words of the Declaration of Independence. These words are the genesis of this day:
| "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 to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
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While our Fathers did not know precisely how to sculpt the government that would stand against all challenges to our freedoms, they were confident in a model that was self-regulating, that relied on the will of the people to drive it, and that was malleable by future generations. That it has stood so well and with so little adaptation is a credit to how inspired their hands were.
This day marks not the beginning of the government under which we live but the first realization of the freedoms endowed to all peoples. That our Fathers chose to enumerate some of those freedoms in the Bill of Rights, their realization that some freedoms were inviolate—speech, religion, bearing arms, among others—they sought to set as foundations those certain freedoms that when tempered or withdrawn cause all other freedoms to collapse.
This is Independence Day. This is Freedom Day. May we always hold it true and be faithful to our Fathers and fathers and mothers that that for many generations have spoiled their limbs, broken their backs, and spilled their blood that we might stand here in the glow of liberty and limitless aspirations.
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