The Very Idea of America

The Fourth of July is about the very Idea of America. We forget this sometimes. America wasn’t founded on a government, or a political system. All of that came much later. It began with this beautiful idea, that our rights come from God. It began with this idea of a society based on these natural rights, on liberty, freedom, free enterprise, self-determination. It is our duty to preserve this idea—this Great Experiment—and just as important, to preserve the spirit in which it was conceived.