Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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With the European culture and continent was in 1608 when John Winthrop came over with his Puritans in the Sloop Arbella and Winthrop gave this famous speech where he said, this is going to be a city on a hill. This is going to be an example for Europe. all the other nations in the world. And he warned his fellow Puritans. They were sitting at this great expanse of land.
He said, we can't be seduced by the lure of real estate or by the carnal opportunities of this land. We have to take this country as a gift from God and then turn it into an example for the rest of the world of God's love, of God's will and wisdom. And then, you know, 200 years later, 250 years later, They are a different generation. They're mainly deists.
He said, we can't be seduced by the lure of real estate or by the carnal opportunities of this land. We have to take this country as a gift from God and then turn it into an example for the rest of the world of God's love, of God's will and wisdom. And then, you know, 200 years later, 250 years later, They are a different generation. They're mainly deists.
He said, we can't be seduced by the lure of real estate or by the carnal opportunities of this land. We have to take this country as a gift from God and then turn it into an example for the rest of the world of God's love, of God's will and wisdom. And then, you know, 200 years later, 250 years later, They are a different generation. They're mainly deists.
They're people who had a belief in God, but not so much a love of particularly religious cosmologies. You know, the Ephraimers, the Constitution... believe that we were creating something that would be replicated around the world and that it was an example. In democracy, there would be this kind of wisdom from the collective. And the word wisdom means a knowledge of God's will.
They're people who had a belief in God, but not so much a love of particularly religious cosmologies. You know, the Ephraimers, the Constitution... believe that we were creating something that would be replicated around the world and that it was an example. In democracy, there would be this kind of wisdom from the collective. And the word wisdom means a knowledge of God's will.
They're people who had a belief in God, but not so much a love of particularly religious cosmologies. You know, the Ephraimers, the Constitution... believe that we were creating something that would be replicated around the world and that it was an example. In democracy, there would be this kind of wisdom from the collective. And the word wisdom means a knowledge of God's will.
And that somehow God would speak through the collective in a way that... that he or she could not speak through totalitarian regimes. And I think that that's something that even though Winthrop was a white man and a Protestant, that every immigrant group who came after them kind of adopted that belief.
And that somehow God would speak through the collective in a way that... that he or she could not speak through totalitarian regimes. And I think that that's something that even though Winthrop was a white man and a Protestant, that every immigrant group who came after them kind of adopted that belief.
And that somehow God would speak through the collective in a way that... that he or she could not speak through totalitarian regimes. And I think that that's something that even though Winthrop was a white man and a Protestant, that every immigrant group who came after them kind of adopted that belief.
And I know my family, when my family came over, all of my grandparents came over in 1848 during the potato famine, And they saw this country as unique in history, as something that was part of kind of a broader spiritual mission. And so I'd say that from a 30,000-foot level, I grew up so proud of this country and believing that it was the greatest country in the world and for those reasons.
And I know my family, when my family came over, all of my grandparents came over in 1848 during the potato famine, And they saw this country as unique in history, as something that was part of kind of a broader spiritual mission. And so I'd say that from a 30,000-foot level, I grew up so proud of this country and believing that it was the greatest country in the world and for those reasons.
And I know my family, when my family came over, all of my grandparents came over in 1848 during the potato famine, And they saw this country as unique in history, as something that was part of kind of a broader spiritual mission. And so I'd say that from a 30,000-foot level, I grew up so proud of this country and believing that it was the greatest country in the world and for those reasons.
To me, freedom does not mean chaos, and it does not mean anarchy. It means that it has to be accompanied by restraint if it's going to live up to its promise and self-restraint. What it means is the capacity for human beings to exercise and to fulfill their creative energies unrestrained as much as possible by government.
To me, freedom does not mean chaos, and it does not mean anarchy. It means that it has to be accompanied by restraint if it's going to live up to its promise and self-restraint. What it means is the capacity for human beings to exercise and to fulfill their creative energies unrestrained as much as possible by government.
To me, freedom does not mean chaos, and it does not mean anarchy. It means that it has to be accompanied by restraint if it's going to live up to its promise and self-restraint. What it means is the capacity for human beings to exercise and to fulfill their creative energies unrestrained as much as possible by government.
And I think, you know, he... He was not unique in saying that. Thomas Jefferson said that the tree of liberty had to be watered with the blood of each generation. And what he meant by that is that we can't live off the laurels of the American Revolution. We had a generation where between 25,000 and 70,000 Americans died.
And I think, you know, he... He was not unique in saying that. Thomas Jefferson said that the tree of liberty had to be watered with the blood of each generation. And what he meant by that is that we can't live off the laurels of the American Revolution. We had a generation where between 25,000 and 70,000 Americans died.
And I think, you know, he... He was not unique in saying that. Thomas Jefferson said that the tree of liberty had to be watered with the blood of each generation. And what he meant by that is that we can't live off the laurels of the American Revolution. We had a generation where between 25,000 and 70,000 Americans died.
They gave their lives, they gave their livelihoods, they gave their status, they gave their property, and they put it all on the line to give us our Bill of Rights. But those Bill of Rights, the moment that we signed them, there were forces within our society that that began trying to chip away at them.