This is the opening speech I gave in my public square last july 4th

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Just me and a bullhorn. Use it if you like when you go out in public to do your patriotic readings.



I’m addressing you from this park today because I feel it is important for us to remember the Fourth of July as more than just a time of fireworks and summer picnics. It is important to remember not only the brave fighters that we honor every year in displays of explosive fire in the sky, but also the great and wise men who crafted the documents on which our union is built.

If the brave fighting soldier is America’s arms and legs then The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution are her heart and spine. Where a man or a nation might survive without a limb surely both will perish without a beating heart or a backbone straight and true. To those that hold our flag as the ultimate symbol of our country and proudly proclaim “these colors never run” it is my hope they will give equal reverence to our country’s sacred documents so “These letters will never fade”.

The authors of these papers we hold dear were not perfect men but they knew one thing. A man was less free under tyranny than he should be. It was not a teaching of a church or a scholarly lecture that instilled this belief in these men or any man or woman. It was and is simply recognition of their own humanity that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”. I won’t assume to say any more this afternoon when so many great patriots already wrote things that are pertinent to this day so I will present those to you now. Hopefully they will remind you of these words so essential to our living the dream that our founding father’s created for us. I conclude this preface with a quote from Thomas Jefferson. “Let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” - Thomas Jefferson