“This attack on our liberty, our magnificent liberty must be stopped and it will be stopped very quickly. We will expose this dangerous movement, protect our nation’s children, end this radical assault, and preserve our beloved American way of life.
“In our schools, our newsrooms, even our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted, and punished. It’s not going to happen to us….
“Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes but that they were villains.
“The radical view of American history is a web of lies, all perspective is removed, every virtue is obscured, every motive is twisted, every fact is distorted and every flaw is magnified until the history is purged and the record is disfigured beyond all recognition….
“We will state the truth in full without apology. We declare that the United States of America is the most just and exceptional nation ever to exist on earth.
“We are proud of the fact that our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and we understand that these values have dramatically advanced the cause of peace and justice throughout the world.
“We know that the American family is the bedrock of American life.
We recognize the solemn right and moral duty of every nation to secure its borders and we are building the wall.
“We remember that governments exist to protect the safety and happiness of their own people. A nation must care for its own citizens first. We must take care of America first. It’s time. We believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed.
“Every child of every color — born and unborn — is made in the holy image of God.
“We want free and open debate, not speech codes and cancel culture.
“We embrace tolerance, not prejudice.
“We support the courageous men and women of law enforcement.
“We will never abolish our police or our great Second Amendment which gives us the right to keep and bear arms.
“We believe that our children should be taught to love their country, honor their history, and respect our great American flag.
“We stand tall, we stand proud, and we only kneel to Almighty God.
“This is who we are. This is what we believe and these are the values that will guide us as we strive to build an even better and greater future.
“Those who seek to erase our heritage want Americans to forget our pride and our great dignity so that we can no longer understand ourselves or America’s destiny. In toppling the heroes of 1776, they seek to dissolve the bonds of love and loyalty that we feel for our country and that we feel for each other. Their goal is not a better America, their goal is the end of America.
“In its place, they want power for themselves, but just as patriots did in centuries past, the American people will stand in their way and we will win and win quickly and with great dignity.
“We will never let them rip America’s heroes from our monuments or from our hearts. By tearing down Washington and Jefferson, these radicals would tear down the very heritage for which men gave their lives to win the Civil War. They would erase the memory that inspired those soldiers to go to their deaths, singing these words of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, ‘As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, while God is marching on.’
“They would tear down the principles that propelled the abolition of slavery and ultimately around the world ending an evil institution that had plagued humanity for thousands and thousands of years. Our opponents would tear apart the very documents that Martin Luther King used to express his dream and the ideas that were the foundation of the righteous movement for Civil Rights. They would tear down the beliefs, culture, and identity, that have made America the most vibrant and tolerant society in the history of the earth.
“My fellow Americans, it is time to speak up loudly and strongly and powerfully and defend the integrity of our country….
“Here tonight before the eyes of our forefathers, Americans declare again, as we did 244 years ago, that we will not be tyrannized, we will not be demeaned, and we will not be intimidated by bad, evil people. It will not happen.
“We will proclaim the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and we will never surrender the spirit and the courage and the cause of July 4, 1776. Upon this ground, we will stand firm and unwavering. In the face of lies meant to divide us, demoralize us and diminish us.”
The Biden administration removed the transcript from the White House website, so that we can no longer link it–ed. See the entire Mount Rushmore speech video.
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