"If It's Not Us, It's Nobody" — My Speech at Hillsdale College
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Hey everybody, my speech at the Hillsdale Leadership Seminar. People say it was one of the best speeches I've given in recent memory. I tend to agree, and I don't say that lightly. I think it was laid out correctly and had the right framing and the right discussion and the right diagnosis of our problems. So I think you're going to enjoy it. Email me as always, freedom at charliekirk.com and subscribe to our podcast. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa.com. That is tpusa.com. Buckle up everybody here.
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of The Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegoldinvestments.com. That is noblegoldinvestments.com. It's where I buy all of my gold. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, Dr. Arnn. It's very kind. I think I might be the first speaker at a national leadership seminar. Not to go to college, is that right? Maybe, maybe not.
But I'm on pace to complete every single Hillsdale online course, so I think I'm making up for it. And I visit college campuses, so you don't have to. I could tell you that if every kid who's currently in college took the Hillsdale online courses instead of going to that four-year college, America would be in a much better place. Much better place. We might have some ideas now for this new administration. I just want to brag on Hillsdale. So I wrote a book called The College Scam, and I sent a copy to Dr. Arnn. I speak extensively about how great Hillsdale is and how it's the exception of what I talk about in the book. And I can tell you from firsthand experience, having visited and spoken at and intimately involved with organizing students on over, well, we're on over 1,000 campuses. I have visited well over 175 of them personally, that there is no place like Hillsdale College. The students are different. They're focused on the right things. They are looking up.
They're asking questions that are deeper in nature. They could tell you why they're there. So I'm visiting. We have our campus tour that's restarting on Thursday. Really, I'm excited to kind of go back out there. And when I ask these students, I say, why are you here? They'll immediately give you an answer that is industrial in nature. I'm here to be able to get prepared to get a job. I say, okay. I ask a Hillsdale College student, why are you here? They say, well, I'm here to learn out how to be a good citizen. I'm here to learn what it means to be a good person, to grow in character and faith and duty. And I asked an average college student at Arizona State University, Harvard or the West, down the street here, and let's just be honest, it pales in comparison to Hillsdale, for many reasons, let's just be honest. And I asked them, I said, what are you reading? And they could maybe recite one or two books. At Hillsdale College, they know the texts intimately.
And it's not a mistake because it all starts from Dr. Larry Arnn. Hillsdale was a good college when Dr. Arnn took over. Now it is the best college in America after what Dr. Arnn has done over the last couple of decades. It has turned into a cultural powerhouse because, as you well know, Hillsdale, there's a waiting line to get in. The standards keep on getting higher and harder to get in. But the millions of people like myself that are taking these online courses is dramatically improving our chances of restoring a free society. The Constitution 101 course, that alone should be taught mandatorily to every police officer, firefighter, Marine, person in the military that has to take an oath for the Constitution.
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