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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Michael Verie Show is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry's Mood. I can
feel like there's one coming on.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
It's The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
July fourth, seventeen seventy six.
Speaker 5 (00:28):
The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America,
the Declaration that colonies would be states when, in the
course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
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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
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causes which impel them to the separation.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all
men are created, that they are.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Rights that cannot be taken away.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
It cannot be separated 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 government. That whenever any form of government.
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We're looking at you, King, it comes destructive of 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
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form as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their safety and happiness. The signing of that document, it
is amazing how prophetic these words became. And for the
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support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the
protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other
our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor, and they
would be forced to pay with all of those.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Happy Birthday, America.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
This is a.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Song about of America, the greatest country ever born. It's
a song about freedom and liberty and you and me.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
He is the thief.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Happy Birthday America. Happy birthday to read what Blom. Happy
birthday to food and did the cheval Legs. Happy birthday
to Eagles, Happy birthday to Faceball as well.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Happy birthday, Statue.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Of Liberty, Liberty Man.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
America is the home of Uncle Sam at fireworks and
kidneys and bussel cars. It's a place where malt Rushmore
is on the mount rushmore things that are fat ass.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
We remember the Alamo and eleven.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
To Coffee Show, and Dale R and Harks.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Biggie both drive in rubies, apple Pie's blue jeans, and
we thank God for the Emancipation Proclamation, reinvented the freaking Internet,
rock and roll, barbecue, chewing skull, bandits, smoke, get in
the Bandit, the hulme of Mark Twain, slam.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Dump, Starbucks, stars and strikes, the Constitution, phill wrights a wife,
an awesome national anthem, Betsy Ross, the super Bowl monopolies,
dig up trucks, the Simpsons, Oh Frisbee Golf, the Golden
Gate Bridge Scores, Harley Gavis and motorbikes, yellow Stone slipping
slides into steeds, cooking, pull the flip clops in that
San Diego chicken thing, and the Breeners in Milwaukee. We
gotten the Great Lakes and a great salt Lake full
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of our brother and sister Mormons, roller coasters, hump Um, Bubba,
bubble dump, big League.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Chewed Fine and Clyde.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Really theous freedom, freedom of the press, free speech, you get,
these hipsters get Bugler's tree huggers.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
We got gay folks getting.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Married coast and goes, and that's just fine with most burritos,
the size of pillows, Elvis Presley, Pick Star Cowboys and Ins,
the NRA NSA, NAACV, spring Break, Cracker Jackson every summer,
Michael bay Buch hit Up, Willian Nelson is a hero.
States where you can legally smoke weed, but not by
others Day where you can fight it but not smoke it.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It's still others where you can't do either.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
And that's just fine because America Rooty, Rudy, depression, fruity
filled horse Chuch Judy be begun wars to turn any
battle parties X ray classes in the Magic Common books
see I Joe Nike, Maybe Seal South Park, goldmer Chievers,
Franklin Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln Frost Bell, Clinton w do the
largest double dates, double men, gum double headers, and double
the freedom of anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
On this yere planning.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
So we may not be perfect, that we're about us
dam close as it gets, and we may make more
serial killers than other countries. Oh, we also make Apple computers,
mostly overseas, but they're still ours, and we send billions
of dollars to countries that oppress their not as free people.
We often send our troops that don't want to go
into countries that don't want us there for reasons we
don't know, but damn it, they're our troops till we
have and we'll always have their backs.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And welcome them home with Ottlevin arms.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
So when people from other countries bitched you for being American,
just kill them a funny look and kill him. You
can't bear them over the sound of your freedom, and
you can't read their lips because the liberty is blinding you.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
This is America.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Our greatest export is thought. And all those that want
to call Lady Liberally their home get in line.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
It's awesome here and we will love you like.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Our own child.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Once you enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
In writing America, it's time to believe it's great.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
America is unique in that it offers anyone and everyone
the opportunity to succeed.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You can come from nothing, and if.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
You study and you work hard, and you sacrifice, and
you delay gratification you make good decisions, you can be successful.
That is the American dream. Opportunity. It's not guaranteed, it's
not assured, the opportunity to fail and then try again.
That's why people from all over the world make their
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way to this country. That's why Ronald Reagan called America
the Shining City upon a Hill. What a beautiful line.
One thing that we used to take for granted was
that Hollywood loved America as much as we did. Ronald
Reagan surely did. One of my favorite pieces of audio
is John Wayne talking about American opportunity. I love the
stars of film and television singing God bless America.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
At the end, boy, I wish we could.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Have that again.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
American opportunity has no limits has been known.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
To knock more than once. How about you, very young.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
People who see a tough life ahead. Well, when Lee
surrendered to Grant at Appo, Mattox booker Teve Washington was
a nine year old slave.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
By the time he was twenty eight, he became president
of Duskegee Institute, And at eight months Neil Arms Drown
took his first small baby step toward mankind and fell
flat on his face.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
At six years.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Old, Nickey Mantle was settling for a base on ball.
At seven, well Chamberlain nailed to practice Soop Overy's garage
without a ladder.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Night.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Charles Lindbergh was flying a kite, wondering how it feel
to be up that high At nine berg back erect
was thinking the piano lessons had never end. How many
of you are pushing fifty and complaining that the country
has going to hell? Christmas Addicts was in his forties
when he died on State Street in Boston, fighting for
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the freedom that we share.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And John F.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Kennedy was forty four when he asked not what his
country could do for him, but what he could do
for his country. And how many of you over sixty
five are just settling down, not arrest after a busy life.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Well, a fellow by the name of Eisenhower, who had.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Already lived one lifetime as a soldier, was re elected
to the presidency when he was sixty seven years young. Well,
by now I've made my point, or I never will. Oh,
there's one other thing. Every man and woman or child
I've ever known, met, seen, or heard of wants one
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thing more than anything else in the world.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Not one thing is tomorrow. Tomorrow. That's the only thing
any of us have going for us.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And I believe this, If tomorrow all of us, every
single one of us, gets out of bed and says,
this is my country and I'm going to do good
for it. We'll make the greatest step forward since the
pilgrim's foot found Plymouth Rock.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Tomorrow. Remember, this is my country and I'm going to
do good for it. Just might work. We'll never know
unless we give it a fair try.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Oh yeah, there's one other thing I'll say tomorrow, because
I say it every day of my life.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
God bless America. Stand beside.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Guy through the night with a line along.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
To the very shall go less man, my all.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Tree, God less man.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Because lan I love from the all.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
God.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Quiet.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
You're listening to the Michael Berry Show. I have a
special treat from this joy.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Fourth, we have stage actor Max MacLean reading one of
the greatest documents ever written, the Declaration of Independence.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I know you've read it, I know you've heard it,
but listen to it with fresh ears anew.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
In Congress July fourth, seventeen seventy six, the Unanimous Declaration
of the thirteen 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
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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 these 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,
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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 airs,
it is the right of the people to alter or
to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its
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foundation on such principles, in organizing its powers in such
forms as to them shall seem most likely to affect
their safety and happiness. Prudence indeed, will dictate that government's
long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.
And accordingly, all experience has shown that mankind are more
disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right
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themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing
invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them
under absolute despotism. It is their right, it is their duty,
to throw off such government, and to provide new guards
for their future security. Such has been the patients sufferance
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of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which
constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The
history of the present King of Great Britain is a
history of repeated injuries and usurpatients, all having in direct
object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.
To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
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He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome
and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his
governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance unless
suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained,
and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend
to them. He has refused to pass the laws for
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the accommodation of large districts of people unless those people
would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a
right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He
has called together legislative bodies and places unusual, uncomfortable, and
distant from the depository of their public records, for the
sole purpose of fatieving them into compliance with his measures.
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He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly for opposing, with manly
firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He
has refused, for a long time, after such the solutions,
to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers
incapable of annihilation have returned to the people at large
for their exercise. The state remaining in the meantime exposed
to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within,
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he has endeavored to prevent the population of these states.
For that purpose, obstructing the laws of naturalization of foreigners,
refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and
raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has
obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent to
laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent
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on his will alone for the tenure of their officers
and the amount in payment of their salaries. He has
erected a multitude of new officers, and sent hither swarms
of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing
armies with out the consent of our legislatures. He has
effected to render the military independent of and superior to,
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the civil power. He has combined with others to subject
us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged
by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of
pretended legislation. For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us,
for protecting them by a mock trial from punishment for
any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of
these states. For cutting off our trade with all parts
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of the world, for imposing taxes on us without our consent,
for depriving us, in many cases of the benefits of
trial by jury, for transporting us beyond seas to be
tried for pretended offenses, for abolishing the free system of
English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government,
and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at
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once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same
absolute rule into these colonies. For taking away our charters,
abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms
of our governments. For suspending our own legislators and declaring
themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all
cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government here by declaring us
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out of his protection and waging war against us. He
has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, murnt our towns,
and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at
this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete
the works of death, desolation, and tyranny already begun with
circumstances of cruelty and perfectly scarcely paralleled in the most
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barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the
high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become
the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall
themselves by their hands. He is excited domestic insurrections among us,
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and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers,
the merciless in savages, whose known rule of warfare is
an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions. In
every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress
in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been
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answered only by repeated injury.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
But Prince, whose.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Character is thus marked by every act which may define
a tyrant, is unfit to be the rule of a
free people. Nor have we been wanting an attention to
our British brethren. We have warned them from time to
time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable
jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances
of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to
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their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them
by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations,
which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too,
have been death to the voice of justice and of sanguinity.
We must therefore acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation,
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and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind,
enemies in war, in peace, friends, We, therefore, the representatives
of the United States of America in General, Congress Assembled,
appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the
rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by
the authority of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly
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publish and declare that these United Colonies are and of
right ought to be free and independent states. That they
are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and
that all political connection between them and the State of
Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved. And
that as free and independent states, they have full power
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to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and
to do all of the acts and things which independent
states may of right do. And for the support to
this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of
Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives,
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our fortunes, and allah sacred honor.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
You're listening to the Michael Berry's show.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
It is July fourth, and.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
We're reminded that Johnny Cash.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Wrote a song about patriotism as the Vietnam War was
coming to any says he said. Johnny wrote this song
about the stars and stripes in the midst of Watergate.
Johnny Cash wrote that Ragged Old Flag at a time
when patriotism was at an all time low. We've played
this song for you a lot on this program. It's
one of our favorites Romono laws that I love it.
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Our whole team loves it. What I'd like to play
today is something a little different. It's an excerpt of
Johnny Cash from the Ralph Emery Show. Ralph Emory asked
Johnny about his thoughts on the freedom to burn the flag,
and Johnny Cash did not parse words on the subject,
and then he recited that Ragged Old Flag. Something beautiful
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about Johnny Cash, his cadence and his baritone voice reciting
it without what you're used to is the musical accompaniment,
just the words.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
But she's in good sheep for the sheep.
Speaker 10 (21:23):
She's in because she's been through the fire before, and
she can take a whole lot more.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
So.
Speaker 10 (21:29):
We raise her up every morning, and we bring her
down slowly every night. We don't let her touch the ground,
and we fold her upright. On second thought, I guess
I do like her ragged because I'm mighty proud of
that ragged old flag.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Michael Verie Show is.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
On the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry's Mood. I can
feel like there's one coming on.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
It's The Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
July fourth, seventeen seventy six.
Speaker 5 (00:28):
The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America,
the Declaration that colonies would be states when, in the
course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
(00:50):
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
(01:10):
causes which impel them to the separation.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all
men are created, that they are.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Rights that cannot be taken away.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
It cannot be separated 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 government. That whenever any form of government.
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We're looking at you, King, it comes destructive of 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
(02:17):
form as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their safety and happiness. The signing of that document, it
is amazing how prophetic these words became. And for the
(02:40):
support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the
protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other
our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor, and they
would be forced to pay with all of those.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Happy Birthday, America.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
This is a.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Song about of America, the greatest country ever born. It's
a song about freedom and liberty and you and me.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
He is the thief.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Happy Birthday America. Happy birthday to read what Blom. Happy
birthday to food and did the cheval Legs. Happy birthday
to Eagles, Happy birthday to Faceball as well.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Happy birthday, Statue.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Of Liberty, Liberty Man.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
America is the home of Uncle Sam at fireworks and
kidneys and bussel cars. It's a place where malt Rushmore
is on the mount rushmore things that are fat ass.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
We remember the Alamo and eleven.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
To Coffee Show, and Dale R and Harks.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Biggie both drive in rubies, apple Pie's blue jeans, and
we thank God for the Emancipation Proclamation, reinvented the freaking Internet,
rock and roll, barbecue, chewing skull, bandits, smoke, get in
the Bandit, the hulme of Mark Twain, slam.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Dump, Starbucks, stars and strikes, the Constitution, phill wrights a wife,
an awesome national anthem, Betsy Ross, the super Bowl monopolies,
dig up trucks, the Simpsons, Oh Frisbee Golf, the Golden
Gate Bridge Scores, Harley Gavis and motorbikes, yellow Stone slipping
slides into steeds, cooking, pull the flip clops in that
San Diego chicken thing, and the Breeners in Milwaukee. We
gotten the Great Lakes and a great salt Lake full
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of our brother and sister Mormons, roller coasters, hump Um, Bubba,
bubble dump, big League.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Chewed Fine and Clyde.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Really theous freedom, freedom of the press, free speech, you get,
these hipsters get Bugler's tree huggers.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
We got gay folks getting.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Married coast and goes, and that's just fine with most burritos,
the size of pillows, Elvis Presley, Pick Star Cowboys and Ins,
the NRA NSA, NAACV, spring Break, Cracker Jackson every summer,
Michael bay Buch hit Up, Willian Nelson is a hero.
States where you can legally smoke weed, but not by
others Day where you can fight it but not smoke it.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It's still others where you can't do either.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
And that's just fine because America Rooty, Rudy, depression, fruity
filled horse Chuch Judy be begun wars to turn any
battle parties X ray classes in the Magic Common books
see I Joe Nike, Maybe Seal South Park, goldmer Chievers,
Franklin Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln Frost Bell, Clinton w do the
largest double dates, double men, gum double headers, and double
the freedom of anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
On this yere planning.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
So we may not be perfect, that we're about us
dam close as it gets, and we may make more
serial killers than other countries. Oh, we also make Apple computers,
mostly overseas, but they're still ours, and we send billions
of dollars to countries that oppress their not as free people.
We often send our troops that don't want to go
into countries that don't want us there for reasons we
don't know, but damn it, they're our troops till we
have and we'll always have their backs.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And welcome them home with Ottlevin arms.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
So when people from other countries bitched you for being American,
just kill them a funny look and kill him. You
can't bear them over the sound of your freedom, and
you can't read their lips because the liberty is blinding you.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
This is America.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Our greatest export is thought. And all those that want
to call Lady Liberally their home get in line.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
It's awesome here and we will love you like.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Our own child.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Once you enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
In writing America, it's time to believe it's great.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
America is unique in that it offers anyone and everyone
the opportunity to succeed.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You can come from nothing, and if.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
You study and you work hard, and you sacrifice, and
you delay gratification you make good decisions, you can be successful.
That is the American dream. Opportunity. It's not guaranteed, it's
not assured, the opportunity to fail and then try again.
That's why people from all over the world make their
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way to this country. That's why Ronald Reagan called America
the Shining City upon a Hill. What a beautiful line.
One thing that we used to take for granted was
that Hollywood loved America as much as we did. Ronald
Reagan surely did. One of my favorite pieces of audio
is John Wayne talking about American opportunity. I love the
stars of film and television singing God bless America.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
At the end, boy, I wish we could.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Have that again.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
American opportunity has no limits has been known.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
To knock more than once. How about you, very young.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
People who see a tough life ahead. Well, when Lee
surrendered to Grant at Appo, Mattox booker Teve Washington was
a nine year old slave.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
By the time he was twenty eight, he became president
of Duskegee Institute, And at eight months Neil Arms Drown
took his first small baby step toward mankind and fell
flat on his face.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
At six years.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Old, Nickey Mantle was settling for a base on ball.
At seven, well Chamberlain nailed to practice Soop Overy's garage
without a ladder.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Night.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Charles Lindbergh was flying a kite, wondering how it feel
to be up that high At nine berg back erect
was thinking the piano lessons had never end. How many
of you are pushing fifty and complaining that the country
has going to hell? Christmas Addicts was in his forties
when he died on State Street in Boston, fighting for
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the freedom that we share.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And John F.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Kennedy was forty four when he asked not what his
country could do for him, but what he could do
for his country. And how many of you over sixty
five are just settling down, not arrest after a busy life.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Well, a fellow by the name of Eisenhower, who had.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Already lived one lifetime as a soldier, was re elected
to the presidency when he was sixty seven years young. Well,
by now I've made my point, or I never will. Oh,
there's one other thing. Every man and woman or child
I've ever known, met, seen, or heard of wants one
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thing more than anything else in the world.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Not one thing is tomorrow. Tomorrow. That's the only thing
any of us have going for us.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And I believe this, If tomorrow all of us, every
single one of us, gets out of bed and says,
this is my country and I'm going to do good
for it. We'll make the greatest step forward since the
pilgrim's foot found Plymouth Rock.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Tomorrow. Remember, this is my country and I'm going to
do good for it. Just might work. We'll never know
unless we give it a fair try.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Oh yeah, there's one other thing I'll say tomorrow, because
I say it every day of my life.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
God bless America. Stand beside.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Guy through the night with a line along.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
To the very shall go less man, my all.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Tree, God less man.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Because lan I love from the all.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
God.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Quiet.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
You're listening to the Michael Berry Show. I have a
special treat from this joy.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Fourth, we have stage actor Max MacLean reading one of
the greatest documents ever written, the Declaration of Independence.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I know you've read it, I know you've heard it,
but listen to it with fresh ears anew.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
In Congress July fourth, seventeen seventy six, the Unanimous Declaration
of the thirteen 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
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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 these 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,
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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 airs,
it is the right of the people to alter or
to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its
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foundation on such principles, in organizing its powers in such
forms as to them shall seem most likely to affect
their safety and happiness. Prudence indeed, will dictate that government's
long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.
And accordingly, all experience has shown that mankind are more
disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right
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themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing
invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them
under absolute despotism. It is their right, it is their duty,
to throw off such government, and to provide new guards
for their future security. Such has been the patients sufferance
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of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which
constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The
history of the present King of Great Britain is a
history of repeated injuries and usurpatients, all having in direct
object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.
To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
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He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome
and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his
governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance unless
suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained,
and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend
to them. He has refused to pass the laws for
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the accommodation of large districts of people unless those people
would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a
right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He
has called together legislative bodies and places unusual, uncomfortable, and
distant from the depository of their public records, for the
sole purpose of fatieving them into compliance with his measures.
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He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly for opposing, with manly
firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He
has refused, for a long time, after such the solutions,
to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers
incapable of annihilation have returned to the people at large
for their exercise. The state remaining in the meantime exposed
to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within,
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he has endeavored to prevent the population of these states.
For that purpose, obstructing the laws of naturalization of foreigners,
refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and
raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has
obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent to
laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent
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on his will alone for the tenure of their officers
and the amount in payment of their salaries. He has
erected a multitude of new officers, and sent hither swarms
of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing
armies with out the consent of our legislatures. He has
effected to render the military independent of and superior to,
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the civil power. He has combined with others to subject
us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged
by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of
pretended legislation. For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us,
for protecting them by a mock trial from punishment for
any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of
these states. For cutting off our trade with all parts
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of the world, for imposing taxes on us without our consent,
for depriving us, in many cases of the benefits of
trial by jury, for transporting us beyond seas to be
tried for pretended offenses, for abolishing the free system of
English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government,
and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at
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once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same
absolute rule into these colonies. For taking away our charters,
abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms
of our governments. For suspending our own legislators and declaring
themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all
cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government here by declaring us
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out of his protection and waging war against us. He
has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, murnt our towns,
and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at
this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete
the works of death, desolation, and tyranny already begun with
circumstances of cruelty and perfectly scarcely paralleled in the most
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barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the
high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become
the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall
themselves by their hands. He is excited domestic insurrections among us,
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and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers,
the merciless in savages, whose known rule of warfare is
an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions. In
every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress
in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been
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answered only by repeated injury.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
But Prince, whose.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Character is thus marked by every act which may define
a tyrant, is unfit to be the rule of a
free people. Nor have we been wanting an attention to
our British brethren. We have warned them from time to
time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable
jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances
of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to
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their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them
by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations,
which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too,
have been death to the voice of justice and of sanguinity.
We must therefore acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation,
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and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind,
enemies in war, in peace, friends, We, therefore, the representatives
of the United States of America in General, Congress Assembled,
appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the
rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by
the authority of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly
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publish and declare that these United Colonies are and of
right ought to be free and independent states. That they
are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and
that all political connection between them and the State of
Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved. And
that as free and independent states, they have full power
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to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and
to do all of the acts and things which independent
states may of right do. And for the support to
this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of
Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives,
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our fortunes, and allah sacred honor.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
You're listening to the Michael Berry's show.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
It is July fourth, and.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
We're reminded that Johnny Cash.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Wrote a song about patriotism as the Vietnam War was
coming to any says he said. Johnny wrote this song
about the stars and stripes in the midst of Watergate.
Johnny Cash wrote that Ragged Old Flag at a time
when patriotism was at an all time low. We've played
this song for you a lot on this program. It's
one of our favorites Romono laws that I love it.
(20:45):
Our whole team loves it. What I'd like to play
today is something a little different. It's an excerpt of
Johnny Cash from the Ralph Emery Show. Ralph Emory asked
Johnny about his thoughts on the freedom to burn the flag,
and Johnny Cash did not parse words on the subject,
and then he recited that Ragged Old Flag. Something beautiful
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about Johnny Cash, his cadence and his baritone voice reciting
it without what you're used to is the musical accompaniment,
just the words.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
But she's in good sheep for the sheep.
Speaker 10 (21:23):
She's in because she's been through the fire before, and
she can take a whole lot more.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
So.
Speaker 10 (21:29):
We raise her up every morning, and we bring her
down slowly every night. We don't let her touch the ground,
and we fold her upright. On second thought, I guess
I do like her ragged because I'm mighty proud of
that ragged old flag.
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