00:00No people have done more good, shown more courage, made more progress, righted more injustice, or achieved more greatness than
00:09you, the American people.
00:12For 250 years, the United States of America has been the hope, the promise, the light, and the glory among
00:20all of the nations of the world.
00:22All over the world, they try and be like us, nobody can be like us, and with God's help, we
00:28will always be this or even better.
00:32These were the stars and stripes that flew triumphant when the British waved the white flag of surrender at Yorktown.
00:41That was a big surrender, nobody thought that was possible.
00:45They were the greatest power of the world, and they surrendered, and that was the beginning.
00:49Ever since, the entire world has been on notice that Americans will never let anyone take our freedom away.
00:57Won't happen.
00:59Unlike so many others in the world, in this country, we have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, equal justice
01:07under the law, although I wasn't treated that well, but we won't get into that.
01:13And the right to keep and bear arms.
01:23And for the almost six years that I was president, I guarded very, very powerfully your Second Amendment, and they
01:32didn't do a thing to it, and it was not easy.
01:36But we use it, and we've had tremendous success.
01:40You look at Venezuela, you look at Iran, we wiped it out, wiped out their military.
01:46Americans crossed the Great Plains, scaled the Rockies, tamed, well, they just tamed the wilderness and conquered the frontier and
01:55built the empire.
02:00Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the world, only to have that menace rear its ugly head
02:08right back here in America.
02:10We're not going to let it happen.
02:11And as we can see here tonight, after 250 years, the spirit of 1776 still lives within us all.
02:21It still roars in the hearts of our nation's capital.
02:25It still burns in the heart of every patriot, thunders through every city and town, and it still lights the
02:31entire world with the glow of American liberty.
02:35And there is nothing like that at 250 years old, we may be the oldest constitutional republic on earth, but
02:45our country is just getting started because the best is yet to come.
03:20We're not going to let it happen.
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