Gavin Newsom

There's nothing self-evident about these ideas.

But as someone said in a film we made about Franklin a few years ago, that it's the old lawyer's dodge.

You know, you just say it's self-evident and then you make it.

So these are people on the outer edge of human thought saying, oh, yeah, isn't this obvious?

And once you break that out as hypocritical as the tolerance of slavery by many of the founders is, slavery is done.

It may take too long, obviously, because one minute more in slavery is bad.

Women will get the vote, even though it's a shameful 144 years from that day before they will have it.

Gay marriage is going to happen.

All of these things get unlocked when you...

Take, no pun intended, John Locke's Life, Liberty, Property.

We change it to pursuit of happiness, not objects, but lifelong learning to be more virtuous.

When you unlock that human energy, look what we created, the greatest country on earth for all the flaws.

And I'm more than happy to spend the rest of our time together enumerating those things or to understand that they come together and they're...

they're not mutually exclusive they are actually kind of lawfully bound to each other just as we make advances um in the mid 18th century franklin was disturbed by german immigration to pennsylvania and he said i like the lovely white and red meaning

the white English settlers and the Native Americans.

And he thought the Germans, and this will come as a shock to everybody, were worthy and they were not befitting the character.

Then all of a sudden we're letting everybody in, German immigrants, Irish immigrants, whatever.

Then the doors are completely, in the early 19th century, people are trying to shut it down.

No, no Catholics can come.

No, keep the Irish out.