Dennis Prager Show - Thank You, America
Aired: 2023-03-14
Duration: 01:06:04


=== Remarkable Individual Liberty (05:53) ===

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[00:00:53]  July 4th, I'm Dennis Prager.
[00:01:02]  *music* Today is Independence Day.
[00:01:07]  The greatest experiment in making a decent society began on this day in the year 1776. And that experiment was called the United States.
[00:01:31]  Composed of flawed people, the society has always had flaws.
[00:01:39]  What is remarkable, therefore, are not the flaws of America.
[00:01:47]  What is remarkable and has been is the greatness of America.
[00:01:57]  Flaws are normal.
[00:01:59]  America is not normal.
[00:02:05]  One must compare this country in assessing it since 1776, not to a vision of a perfect or nearly perfect society, but to the other societies that human beings have formed since history.
[00:02:26]  Began to be recorded and until the present.
[00:02:32]  Then you have a remarkable story, particularly concerning, but hardly restricted to, the elevation of the individual thanks to the individual having liberty.
[00:02:51]  It is almost impossible to overstate.
[00:02:55]  The significance of the American experiment with individual liberty, that is not normal either.
[00:03:06]  Both in antiquity and in the modern period, to this day, individual liberty has not been the preeminent value of almost any society on earth outside of the United States.
[00:03:25]  Social cohesion, security, conformity, these have been the norms.
[00:03:35]  Tribal, union, these have been the norms.
[00:03:41]  The elevation of the individual is an absolute exception and remains the focus of the battle to this day in the United States.
[00:03:55]  Because at least as many humans want to be taken care of as want to have liberty, and they are not the same.
[00:04:06]  Being taken care of comes with a small string attached, and that is your liberty.
[00:04:18]  Vis-a-vis those to whom you owe money in personal life, you don't have freedom.
[00:04:24]  You are in their debt.
[00:04:27]  It is a form of slavery, though of course it's not the same thing as slavery.
[00:04:34]  That's what this country was founded to create.
[00:04:38]  A society of free individuals who would only be decent given their freedom, given the lack of state coercion in their lives, they could only be decent if they were decent.
[00:04:55]  This Constitution and this country were made for people who would be personally decent.
[00:05:05]  It cannot work without that.
[00:05:11]  I'm Dennis Prager, and I welcome you to the July 4th show, which I am broadcasting live.
[00:05:20]  That's a funny way of putting it.
[00:05:22]  Nobody broadcasts dead.
[00:05:25]  But the point is that I am in studio and talking to you, and in fact will happily take your calls.
[00:05:36]  July 4th gives us an opportunity to take stock of America, as well as the obvious, and the obvious should be done, portray our commitment and even love for it.

=== Why We Honor Independence Day (14:45) ===

[00:05:55]  I have often asked on July 4th of the past if you're not showing a flag today outside of laziness, which I suspect is true for very many people, and I fully appreciate that and don't judge it because everybody has a lazy streak.
[00:06:15]  But if you are committed to not showing the flag, then I would like to hear from you.
[00:06:24]  And I suspect that there are more than a few Americans who are committed to not showing it, that it is not simply a function of, oh, I forgot, or, ah, leave me alone, I got too much on my mind, etc., etc.
[00:06:44]  The phone number is 1-8 Prager, P-R-A-G-E-R 776. Which is 877-243-776.
[00:06:59]  877. 877-243-776.
[00:07:06]  877-243-776.
[00:07:09]  It is not well known that that particular jingle was written by Andrew Jackson.
[00:07:17]  That is how far back that particular jingle goes, and I am honored to play it with the same numbers that Jackson himself used if he wished to phone the White House.
[00:07:33]  When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds, excuse me, bands, which have connected them with another.
[00:07:46]  And to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station, to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
[00:08:11]  God makes it into the first sentence.
[00:08:15]  Of the Declaration of Independence.
[00:08:18]  You realize that should this have been written today, it would be deemed unconstitutional.
[00:08:25]  Of course, the Constitution had not yet been ratified.
[00:08:28]  That was 1787. So that would have been another 11 years.
[00:08:36]  But think about that.
[00:08:38]  It is taken for granted that the United States of America is based...
[00:08:43]  Its value system is predicated upon the belief or the assertion, even if you don't believe, it doesn't matter if you believe or not.
[00:08:57]  This is the statement that the United States wishes to make.
[00:09:03]  There is a God, and I love this term, nature's God.
[00:09:08]  Today, just as in antiquity, A deification of nature, so that you don't have any longer, nature is God, but nature is God.
[00:09:28]  We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator, capital C, with certain unalienable rights.
[00:09:45]  That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
[00:09:51]  That sentence alone is awesome.
[00:09:56]  It almost tells you everything you need to know about the uniqueness of the United States of America.
[00:10:04]  We hold these truths to be self-evident.
[00:10:08]  In other words, there is no argument.
[00:10:13]  All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
[00:10:21]  What are they?
[00:10:24]  Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
[00:10:30]  Not equality.
[00:10:32]  We are born equal, created equal, but we don't have an unalienable right to all be equal in station.
[00:10:40]  That is earned through liberty and pursuit of happiness.
[00:10:46]  On this Independence Day, I am Dennis Prager.
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[00:11:51]  Oh, beautiful.
[00:12:11]  Far heroes proved.
[00:12:18]  In liberating strife.
[00:12:22]  Who more than self.
[00:12:29]  Yeah, country loved.
[00:12:34]  And of mercy more than life.
[00:12:40]  Bring meaning to your 4th of July this year.
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[00:12:47]  America.
[00:12:48]  Mmm, America.
[00:12:53]  God shed His grace on thee.
[00:12:58]  You're listening to the Dennis Prager Show, July 4th.
[00:13:03]  I broadcast because the purpose of every holiday, unless the holiday is called vacation day, is to honor or commemorate something.
[00:13:20]  With the exception of the truly disgraceful creation of President's Day and the wiping out of Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays.
[00:13:32]  There is something so unhealthy about that that I will talk about it another time.
[00:13:38]  I have talked about it in the past.
[00:13:41]  I will take some calls here.
[00:13:46]  We'll begin with Melbourne, Australia.
[00:13:49]  And Paul.
[00:13:50]  Paul, you must be an insomniac.
[00:13:53]  Well, I am once a year.
[00:13:54]  I did the same thing last year.
[00:13:56]  Really?
[00:13:57]  That's right.
[00:13:58]  Only on the 4th of July.
[00:13:59]  Well, that's really sweet.
[00:14:01]  Are you an Aussie?
[00:14:03]  I am, indeed.
[00:14:05]  And go ahead.
[00:14:07]  The reason you're calling?
[00:14:09]  To wish all Americans a happy 4th of July and to say thank you.
[00:14:13]  Thank you very much for all the things that you do for us and the world.
[00:14:18]  How long will you be brave and free?
[00:14:23]  Well, it touches every one of us to hear somebody at, let's see, 7, is it 2 in the morning?
[00:14:33]  2 in the morning.
[00:14:33]  Yep, at 2 in the morning, calling an American radio show to wish Americans a happy 4th.
[00:14:42]  So it means a lot to me and to all my listeners, and I thank you very much, Paul.
[00:14:47]  God bless.
[00:14:48]  God bless, indeed.
[00:14:53]  In my book, Still the Best Hope, I explain why Americans think that so much of the world hates America, and it's not true.
[00:15:04]  Vast numbers of people love it.
[00:15:08]  But there is a part of the world that dominates the media of the world, The academia of the world and believe that that reflects the world, and to a certain extent it does.
[00:15:27]  And let's go to Jonathan in Provo, Utah.
[00:15:32]  Hello, Jonathan.
[00:15:33]  Dennis Prager.
[00:15:34]  Hello.
[00:15:35]  Welcome, welcome.
[00:15:37]  Thank you.
[00:15:37]  We hear you live, and this has been many years, a dream of mine to hear you live.
[00:15:45]  I've always had to go to the Internet.
[00:15:47]  And get your show, but that was fine because I could download it.
[00:15:51]  But to hear you live is a treat.
[00:15:54]  To have you here on the 4th is a treat.
[00:15:57]  You know, we're producing the giant Stadium of Fire tonight, and we'll have 50,000 fans there.
[00:16:06]  And I actually met one of the producers or one of the directors of the new radio station that you'll be going on permanently here.
[00:16:15]  So I was tipped off.
[00:16:17]  But I'm excited to have you.
[00:16:19]  Well, thank you.
[00:16:21]  It's a delight indeed.
[00:16:22]  I know Provo.
[00:16:24]  It's gorgeous.
[00:16:24]  And what I need to do is come and give a speech there.
[00:16:29]  Well, I've been thinking about how to get you here for years.
[00:16:33]  When I get wound up in church meetings, I can start spouting your ideas and people go, what?
[00:16:39]  Never thought of it that way.
[00:16:41]  That's right.
[00:16:42]  It's exciting.
[00:16:43]  That is what keeps me going.
[00:16:45]  Jonathan, I really look forward to seeing you in Provo.
[00:16:48]  Thank you.
[00:16:49]  The show is being picked up by more and more stations, and that's a very important thing.
[00:16:57]  It's not a monetary compensation.
[00:16:59]  It is why I broadcast.
[00:17:02]  To tell people things that when they hear, they will think, oh, never thought of it that way.
[00:17:07]  And that is persuasive.
[00:17:10]  And among them, about America itself, which is why it's important for me to broadcast on July 4th.
[00:17:18]  So, let's see.
[00:17:19]  We went from Australia to Utah.
[00:17:22]  And now we'll go to California and San Diego.
[00:17:26]  And Mike.
[00:17:27]  Hello, Mike.
[00:17:27]  Dennis Prager.
[00:17:31]  Hello?
[00:17:32]  Hello.
[00:17:33]  Are you there?
[00:17:34]  The question is, are you there?
[00:17:36]  I am definitely here.
[00:17:40]  Good, I want to be that.
[00:17:42]  Thank you.
[00:17:45]  Me too.
[00:17:47]  I wasn't when the alarm clock went off.
[00:17:50]  I have to say, my first reaction was not happiness.
[00:17:54]  Not usually at 4 o'clock in the morning.
[00:17:57]  You know how it goes.
[00:17:58]  But it is now, yes.
[00:18:04]  Oh, that's sweet of you.
[00:18:06]  Because I'm always at work, but I want to tell you something.
[00:18:09]  Gratitude is the best gift that you have given to me.
[00:18:15]  If I gave it to you, it is the best gift I ever gave you.
[00:18:18]  It is.
[00:18:19]  Yes, I agree.
[00:18:21]  It's literally true.
[00:18:22]  It makes me happy.
[00:18:24]  It makes me fulfilled.
[00:18:27]  Gratitude is the way to go.
[00:18:29]  Well, bless you, my friend.
[00:18:31]  Thank you for that.
[00:18:33]  Let me put it to you folks in the most dramatic and yet 100% honest way.
[00:18:42]  If you were to have a choice in terms of your permanent happiness between gratitude and a lottery win, you would be foolish to take the lottery win.
[00:19:01]  Just talking about what will keep you happier.
[00:19:05]  Now, if you're already grateful and have a lottery win, it ain't so bad.
[00:19:10]  I wouldn't complain.
[00:19:12]  I'd even be more grateful.
[00:19:15]  But there's no comparison.
[00:19:19]  I can't overstate how important gratitude is.
[00:19:26]  That is true.
[00:19:29]  We return now to the Declaration.
[00:19:33]  This great line, we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
[00:19:40]  That they are endowed by their Creator.
[00:19:43]  Because, folks, if the Creator doesn't endow us, who does?
[00:19:47]  Not endowed by nature.
[00:19:52]  Not endowed by government.
[00:19:57]  Endowed by their Creator.
[00:19:59]  The removal of God from the basis of American values is not only un-American in the literal sense of the word, it will mean the end of the society as we know it.
[00:20:11]  The radical secularization of society, as has taken place in Europe, is going to end the society.
[00:20:24]  My friends, every civilization has died.

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[00:22:23]  This is the Independence Day, the birthday of the greatest experiment as a society in history.
[00:22:32]  And it has thus far succeeded.
[00:22:35]  There is no guarantee it will continue to do so unless we make days like July 4th.
[00:22:43]  Days that reaffirm and educate what we stand for.

=== Do What Makes You Happy (10:22) ===

[00:22:47]  That's why I'm broadcasting today.
[00:22:50]  To make the day as meaningful as possible.
[00:22:53]  Just as much for me, incidentally, as for you.
[00:22:56]  Because if I didn't broadcast, I'd be sleeping.
[00:22:59]  To be perfectly honest.
[00:23:02]  I might add that every holiday that I broadcast is a complete vindication of my behavioral attitude toward happiness.
[00:23:17]  That you do what makes you happy.
[00:23:20]  Rather than do what you're in the mood to do.
[00:23:24]  Behavior makes you happy, not mood.
[00:23:27]  My mood was to sleep and take the day off.
[00:23:30]  No one at my syndicator Salem Radio asked me to broadcast.
[00:23:36]  They didn't.
[00:23:38]  And I might add, it is just as true for Sean McConnell and Alan Estrin and Christian Welburn and the folks in Dallas.
[00:23:50]  All of you have made the same exact, if you want to use the word, sacrifice, as I have.
[00:23:56]  And I am completely aware of that.
[00:23:59]  Because if I talked here and you folks weren't working, I would be talking to myself.
[00:24:05]  Which, incidentally, I am prepared to do.
[00:24:08]  I am.
[00:24:09]  You know what I tell people, young people who say they want to be a talk show host, I say, well, there's a way to find out if you can do it.
[00:24:17]  Sit alone in a room for three hours and be interesting.
[00:24:21]  You can do that.
[00:24:22]  You have the makings of a talk show host.
[00:24:25]  You also have the makings of a lunatic.
[00:24:27]  So there is a fine line.
[00:24:29]  I acknowledge that.
[00:24:31]  God, look at that.
[00:24:32]  The guy's interesting for three hours alone.
[00:24:37]  That's something.
[00:24:40]  That is correct.
[00:24:41]  So I'm very grateful to all of you for joining me on this July 4th.
[00:24:46]  And if you missed the first hour, it was both educational.
[00:24:50]  Now, you can't say both for three things.
[00:24:53]  It was educational, moving, and fun.
[00:24:57]  That's good.
[00:24:58]  EMF. Or LSMFT, if you will.
[00:25:05]  Lucky Strike means fine tobacco.
[00:25:08]  Well, I'm going to be fined.
[00:25:10]  Is that considered a tobacco ad?
[00:25:13]  Shall we just have a cigarette on it?
[00:25:15]  That's right.
[00:25:16]  Yes, we should.
[00:25:17]  You know what it is like to speak and have background comments all the time?
[00:25:24]  How many people get that?
[00:25:25]  If a normal mortal could have that, it would make life much more entertaining.
[00:25:32]  Everybody should have an M-double-C-O-double-N-E-double-L-McConnell. M-double-C-O-double-N-E-double-L-McConnell. M-double-C-O-double-N-E-double-L-McConnell.
[00:25:48]  Everybody should have that in their life.
[00:25:55]  See?
[00:25:56]  A jingle with your name.
[00:25:59]  How would Rabinowitz work?
[00:26:01]  R-A-B-I-N-O-W-I-T-Z Rabinowitz.
[00:26:07]  It works, you see?
[00:26:11]  Khrushchev.
[00:26:12]  K-H-R-U-S-H-C-E-H-E-V. Khrushchev.
[00:26:17]  It works for everybody.
[00:26:18]  But it works better for you.
[00:26:21]  All right, before the Salem regrets that I'm broadcasting today, let me take some call.
[00:26:27]  And let's see here.
[00:26:29]  I think we can get rid of line one, because we've taken that.
[00:26:34]  All right, we're getting a pattern here.
[00:26:40]  One minute, let's see here.
[00:26:42]  We have a pattern.
[00:26:44]  Saul in Los Angeles.
[00:26:46]  Hi, Dennis Prager.
[00:26:48]  Hi, Dennis.
[00:26:49]  Good morning.
[00:26:50]  Is your name Sol?
[00:26:51]  Yes, S-O-L means the sun.
[00:26:54]  Yes, it does.
[00:26:55]  It's Spanish.
[00:26:56]  So, Sol.
[00:26:57]  Yes.
[00:26:58]  Hi, Sol.
[00:26:59]  How are you?
[00:27:01]  Happy?
[00:27:01]  I want to say thank you in our native language, Tagalog.
[00:27:06]  Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
[00:27:10]  Salamat?
[00:27:12]  Maraming, maraming salamat, America.
[00:27:15]  It means thank you very, very much.
[00:27:18]  Wow, that's beautiful.
[00:27:20]  I'm telling you, it would be so beautiful to organize this.
[00:27:23]  Maybe we should do that.
[00:27:24]  I'm not kidding.
[00:27:26]  Let's organize immigrants from 100 countries to say thank you, America, and put it on a video.
[00:27:32]  Yes.
[00:27:33]  I got the chills, which is a good thing if I get a chill factor.
[00:27:36]  How long have you been here?
[00:27:39]  22 years.
[00:27:41]  Wow.
[00:27:42]  Well, we are thrilled you're one of us.
[00:27:46]  Yes.
[00:27:47]  Upon waking up this morning, I said a prayer of thank you to God for America.
[00:27:53]  Oh, you're going to make me cry, and that's not good for radio.
[00:27:56]  I mean it.
[00:27:58]  Yeah, I'm almost crying right now.
[00:28:00]  Me too.
[00:28:02]  Wow.
[00:28:03]  Well, God bless you.
[00:28:05]  That takes your breath away.
[00:28:08]  See, that's what we need to publicize.
[00:28:12]  It's good for everybody.
[00:28:13]  It's good for Americans.
[00:28:15]  And it's good for immigration.
[00:28:19]  There are many lies that pervade our society.
[00:28:23]  None is greater, some are tied, than the notion that conservatives are anti-immigrant.
[00:28:31]  It's a huge lie.
[00:28:33]  It's not a little lie.
[00:28:34]  It's not a medium-sized lie.
[00:28:36]  It's a big lie.
[00:28:38]  We love immigrants.
[00:28:43]  But whenever there is opposition to illegal immigration, from the New York Times to the LA Times, it is listed as anti-immigrant or anti-immigration.
[00:28:53]  Never anti-illegal immigration.
[00:28:56]  It's an insidious little but powerful lie.
[00:29:02]  So, yes, indeed, Sol, salamat to you.
[00:29:06]  And let's go to Jason in...
[00:29:11]  I assume you're Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, correct?
[00:29:16]  Yes, I am.
[00:29:17]  Good, because it says Philadelphia CA, and it's really Philadelphia PA. Philadelphia PA, yes.
[00:29:24]  Yes, okay, hi.
[00:29:26]  Okay, well basically, I was born and bred, raised in America, and now that I'm all grown up, you know, my personal research and personal experience, I've come to the conclusion that I don't agree with.
[00:29:40]  The ideals that America was founded on.
[00:29:43]  For instance, equality and democracy, a republican form of government.
[00:29:49]  I'm a very nationalist.
[00:29:53]  I'm not coming from the international socialist point of view.
[00:29:57]  But I believe that I owe my loyalties mostly to Western civilization, not to America.
[00:30:06]  And for quite a while now, a bunch of decades, America has really been the biggest threat toward Western civilization, our values and those ideals.
[00:30:17]  Well, the only reason I'm interrupting, I really wanted to listen more, is I don't understand those last two comments.
[00:30:26]  First of all, I respect someone who says, I don't agree with American ideals.
[00:30:31]  The people I don't respect are the people...
[00:30:34]  Who change America's ideals and then assert that they are America's ideals.
[00:30:38]  So if you don't agree with them, I respect that.
[00:30:40]  What I don't understand is America is...
[00:30:45]  Your allegiance is to Western civilization, not to America.
[00:30:50]  When has Western civilization died for the liberty of other people as opposed to a specific country called the United States of America?
[00:30:59]  Well, I'm claiming that dying for liberty of other people, I'm not sure if that really happened.
[00:31:06]  I know your feelings on it.
[00:31:08]  No, I don't have feelings on it.
[00:31:09]  I don't.
[00:31:10]  I have knowledge of it.
[00:31:12]  What happened?
[00:31:13]  Why was there a Korean War?
[00:31:15]  To prevent international communism from conquering South Korea.
[00:31:19]  Exactly.
[00:31:20]  Wait, wait, wait.
[00:31:21]  So why isn't that dying for liberty?
[00:31:23]  Because it was actually there to...
[00:31:26]  To expand the American capitalist markets.
[00:31:31]  Wait, oh, okay, so that's what you believe?
[00:31:34]  Yes.
[00:31:35]  You believe that 37,000 Americans died to expand capitalist markets in one of the poorest countries on Earth, Korea?
[00:31:45]  Yes, and we did it in Cuba in 1898. All right, okay, so is there any time we died and it wasn't to expand capitalist markets?
[00:31:58]  What if we had died in Cambodia to stop Pol Pot?
[00:32:10]  Or what if we had bombed the Nazi concentration camps of Jews?
[00:32:14]  Would that have been to expand capitalist markets in Poland?
[00:32:18]  And I don't blame the Poles for the camps.
[00:32:20]  I blame the Nazis, but that's where the camps were.
[00:32:23]  The death camps, anyway.
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[00:33:49]  Bring meaning to your 4th of July this year and find out how at PragerUniversity.com.
[00:33:56]  It's not too late.
[00:34:09]  It's still Independence Day.
[00:34:12]  Go to PragerUniversity.com and watch.
[00:34:14]  It's five minutes, seven minutes.
[00:34:17]  Watch what we have created to bring kids and certainly adults into This ceremonial meal to make the day meaningful.
[00:34:33]  You're listening to The Dennis Prager Show, coming to you on July 4th.
[00:34:40]  Fort Meade, Maryland.
[00:34:43]  And Patrick, thank you for waiting, Patrick.
[00:34:46]  Happy 4th to you.
[00:34:48]  Happy 4th, Dennis.
[00:34:49]  I wanted to tell you and your audience about what we did in our neighborhood today to celebrate the 4th of July.
[00:34:57]  I'm listening.
[00:34:58]  Go ahead.
[00:34:59]  My wife and kids organized a bike parade, patriotic bike parade, and a scavenger hunt for about 30 neighborhood kids who came to our house.
[00:35:08]  They rode around the block with decorated bikes, and then we had a scavenger hunt, and so you would have a question, and then the clue would tell you where to go in the neighborhood.
[00:35:19]  You would find an envelope and find the answer to the question, and the questions were all based upon.
[00:35:25]  Your 4th of July declaration celebration.
[00:35:28]  When the kids were done and the last location was our front porch, we had the unsigned constitution and each kid signed the constitution to conclude the scavenger hunt.
[00:35:40]  It's too bad you didn't video it.
[00:35:42]  We would put it up.
[00:35:43]  We have some video and we have some photos that we would love to email to you.
[00:35:50]  Yes, please do.
[00:35:51]  You made my day, sir.
[00:35:53]  Where is Fort Meade?
[00:35:55]  Fort Meade is about 15 minutes south of Baltimore on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
[00:36:02]  It's a military base.
[00:36:04]  Oh, well, you've doubled my joy.
[00:36:08]  Thank you, thank you.
[00:36:09]  I can't tell you.
[00:36:11]  You know, you work hard to do these things, and then it comes to life a continent away, and it's just so gratifying.
[00:36:19]  Let me play for you what we filmed.
[00:36:23]  At PragerUniversity.com.
[00:36:26]  We videoed, was it last year or two years ago?
[00:36:30]  We, last year, we videoed doing this.
[00:36:34]  So you will have the model.
[00:36:36]  So here, let's show.
[00:36:38]  I'm leading the ceremony.
[00:36:39]  Here we go.
[00:36:46]  Well hi everybody and welcome to our July 4th declaration.
[00:36:55]  Today, we take a few minutes to remember what the 4th of July is about and to remind ourselves how fortunate we are to be Americans.
[00:37:04]  Before America was a nation, it was a dream, a dream shared by many people from many nations over many generations.
[00:37:11]  It began with the pilgrims in 1620 who fled Europe so that they could be free to practice their religion.
[00:37:18]  It continued through the 17th century.
[00:37:20]  As more and more people came to the place that came to be known as the New World.
[00:37:26]  In this new world, where you came from didn't matter.
[00:37:32]  What mattered was where you were headed.
[00:37:34]  As more and more people settled, they started to see themselves as new people, Americans.
[00:37:40]  They felt blessed.
[00:37:42]  The land was spacious, the opportunities limitless.
[00:37:45]  By 1776...
[00:37:48]  A century and a half after the first pilgrims landed, this new, liberty-loving people was ready to create a new nation.
[00:37:56]  And on July 4th of that year, they did just that.
[00:38:00]  They pronounced themselves to be free of the rule of the English king, and we know this statement as the Declaration of Independence.
[00:38:09]  So, young folks, I'd like you to ask some questions and answer them, and we'll begin with you.
[00:38:15]  Why do we celebrate the 4th of July?
[00:38:17]  Because the Fourth of July is the birthday of the American people, the day we chose to become the United States of America, a free nation.
[00:38:25]  Why was America different from all other countries?
[00:38:28]  Because in 1776, all countries were based on nationality, religion, ethnicity, or geography.
[00:38:35]  But America was created on the basis of a set of ideas.
[00:38:38]  This is still true today.
[00:38:40]  What are those ideas?
[00:38:42]  Three ideas summarize what America is all about.
[00:38:45]  They are engraved on every American coin.
[00:38:48]  They are liberty, in God we trust, and E Pluribus Humum.
[00:38:52]  All right, everybody, pick up this American coin.
[00:38:55]  All right, we'll continue with that in the course of the show.
[00:39:00]  Getting the kids involved is so important.
[00:39:06]  Naturally, we give them the questions and the answers, but you are certainly free, indeed invited, to...
[00:39:13]  Elaborate on the questions and elaborate on the answers.
[00:39:16]  But contrary to the silliness that pervades the American educational system, we believe in memorization at a young age.
[00:39:25]  I had to memorize the Gettysburg Address, and it was a good thing that I did.
[00:39:31]  Now they don't memorize anything, so what do they carry into adulthood?
[00:39:37]  To memorize doesn't mean you don't think.
[00:39:41]  Memorization helps you think, because you memorize the greatest ideas ever articulated.
[00:39:50]  And so, yes, we should have memorized, every one of us should have memorized, the American value system is engraved on every coin, and that is what I call the American Trinity, and that is liberty in God we trust and e pluribus unum.
[00:40:08]  You can download that exact video of what you just heard from PragerUniversity.com.
[00:40:16]  You can do that right now and it would be good.
[00:40:19]  And the text as well.
[00:40:20]  The text is there too so that you can use it.
[00:40:23]  You can download it.
[00:40:24]  We've done everything for you except visit.
[00:40:28]  We'd love to.
[00:40:31]  Grandville, Michigan.
[00:40:33]  Thomas.
[00:40:34]  Hi, Dennis.
[00:40:35]  How are you?
[00:40:35]  Very well.
[00:40:36]  Thank you.
[00:40:37]  Yeah, happy Independence Day from the proud naturalized citizen.
[00:40:42]  I love hearing from naturalized citizens.
[00:40:45]  I really do.
[00:40:46]  I'm sorry.
[00:40:47]  No, no, no.
[00:40:48]  You go ahead.
[00:40:49]  They asked me to say happy 4th of July, but I think that would be kind of goofy to say that in Czech unless you want me to do that.
[00:40:55]  No, what would you like to say in Czech?
[00:40:57]  Well, I can say thank you, United States of America.
[00:41:00]  I really think that the United States of America is more appropriate than America, actually.
[00:41:06]  That's fine with me.
[00:41:07]  So say, yeah.
[00:41:08]  I love it.
[00:41:12]  I do love it.
[00:41:14]  And now, please, for the rest of the year, would you say slowly, you have the right to remain silent.
[00:41:24]  That's pretty damn fast.
[00:41:26]  Mate, Bravo, Merchant.
[00:41:28]  Oh, Bravo is right.
[00:41:30]  That's right.
[00:41:31]  Yes.
[00:41:32]  Okay.
[00:41:33]  God bless you, sir.
[00:41:34]  I mean it.
[00:41:34]  God bless you.
[00:41:35]  God bless you.
[00:41:36]  Oh, thank you.
[00:41:37]  Have a wonderful, meaningful day.
[00:41:40]  I'm telling you, this is an idea.
[00:41:41]  It started today.
[00:41:44]  We are going to organize a video of naturalized Americans and saying in every language, thank you to this country.
[00:41:56]  See, it's very important to fight bad things, but it's even more important to affirm good things.
[00:42:05]  That's why my book is still The Best Hope, not Why the Other Ideas Are Wrong, although that's two-thirds of the book.
[00:42:13]  But you have to affirm what is beautiful.
[00:42:16]  You're listening to The Dennis Prager Show on July 4th.
[00:42:20]  The Dennis Prager Show on July 4th.
[00:42:50]  The Dennis Prager Show on July 4th.
[00:43:00]  Dennis Prager here, broadcasting live.
[00:43:03]  Make this day as meaningful as possible for both of us.
[00:43:08]  And this is really, you know, this is wrong.
[00:43:11]  Every call here is from New York or California.
[00:43:14]  What happened to the rest of the country?
[00:43:16]  What is the New Yorker cartoon alive?
[00:43:23]  Welcome, my friends.
[00:43:25]  Dennis Prager broadcasting because it's such an important day.
[00:43:30]  And if I can make it a little more so for everybody, including myself, then I'm not going to sleep in.
[00:43:38]  Thanks for being with me.
[00:43:41]  I have been reading part of the Declaration of Independence.
[00:43:44]  I have been sharing with you the ceremony that we created at PragerUniversity.com.
[00:43:49]  You can download it.
[00:43:50]  It's free.
[00:43:51]  Just sign up so we can tell you about other things we do.
[00:43:56]  Trying with all my heart and soul to rekindle the awareness of what we stand for.
[00:44:03]  I am not alone.
[00:44:04]  Believe me, I know that.
[00:44:06]  All right, let's go to New York and to Alex.
[00:44:11]  Hello, Dennis.
[00:44:14]  Hi.
[00:44:16]  Dennis, I decided to say in Russian for you and your listeners...
[00:44:21]  God bless America.
[00:44:22]  And it came to me that if I do it, it will be quite in the spirit of the American tradition from many one, right?
[00:44:32]  Wait a minute.
[00:44:33]  I thought you did it.
[00:44:34]  I thought you did it in Russian.
[00:44:36]  God bless America.
[00:44:37]  Right.
[00:44:38]  No, I did it in English.
[00:44:40]  Oh, okay.
[00:44:41]  In Russian it is, What was the second word?
[00:44:52]  Yes, it's bless.
[00:44:57]  Yes, that's correct.
[00:45:01]  the book of the army of america all right now now for all of the you must tell us how for our uh... work compendium uh...
[00:45:10]  what's the mean the knees your word that company in our compilation of you have a right to remain silent what you got a lot we put it down at the bottom of the chart not to watch with the deal Well, you can say u was also.
[00:45:29]  It's either u tebia or u was.
[00:45:32]  If you want to be very polite, it's...
[00:45:35]  Well, you're always polite to the guy when you arrest him.
[00:45:39]  I love you, sir.
[00:45:44]  Right.
[00:45:46]  I wanted to say one more thing, which would be of interest to you and to your listeners.
[00:45:51]  You know, the Russian liberal radio station named Eko Moscow, it's based on Moscow, and it's the voice of liberal Russians.
[00:46:05]  They posted yesterday on their website the full text of the Declaration of Independence.
[00:46:11]  And it's very telling, you know.
[00:46:13]  They cannot tell openly to President Putin that he's a tyrant and a despot.
[00:46:19]  So they're doing it.
[00:46:21]  Oh, I love this.
[00:46:23]  You don't know how powerful this is.
[00:46:27]  You should tell this to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
[00:46:30]  Because they didn't put up the South African Declaration of Constitution.
[00:46:35]  They didn't put up any of the other constitutions.
[00:46:38]  They put up our Declaration of Independence.
[00:46:41]  To be fair to her, she was speaking about constitutions.
[00:46:44]  But nevertheless, that is a great story, Alex.
[00:46:47]  Thank you.
[00:46:48]  The United States, those who love liberty, love America.
[00:46:54]  That's the way it works.
[00:46:56]  Those who love material equality, love...
[00:46:59]  Sweden.
[00:47:01]  That's it.
[00:47:02]  This is clarity.
[00:47:05]  This is not opinion.
[00:47:07]  This is clarity.
[00:47:08]  The opinion is which one you value more, liberty or material equality.
[00:47:13]  That's an opinion.
[00:47:14]  But it's a fact that if you love liberty, this is not going to be your favorite country.
[00:47:19]  Excuse me, this will be your favorite country.
[00:47:21]  Sweden won't.
[00:47:23]  If you love material equality, this will not be your favorite country.
[00:47:28]  Alright, let's go.
[00:47:29]  We'll stay in New York for a moment.
[00:47:31]  Staten Island, New York.
[00:47:32]  Frank, hello.
[00:47:34]  Hi, Dennis.
[00:47:35]  As I was driving around today, shopping for the 4th, I wanted to get a flag or some other decoration to bring to my girlfriend's house.
[00:47:44]  Last minute, I know, but she didn't have anything.
[00:47:47]  So I went to two major drugstore chains in my area, Staten Island, New York.
[00:47:53]  Dwayne Reed, and what else?
[00:47:56]  Can I say the names?
[00:47:57]  Why not?
[00:47:58]  CVS and Rite Aid.
[00:48:00]  Oh, Dwayne Reed is in Manhattan.
[00:48:02]  They're out here too now.
[00:48:03]  In fact, every other block has a bank or a drugstore.
[00:48:06]  Yes, that's exactly how Manhattan works.
[00:48:09]  Your entire world is within three blocks.
[00:48:12]  Right.
[00:48:12]  So, not one American flag in the first store.
[00:48:16]  And there was no advertisement that said, you know, Fourth of July decorations.
[00:48:21]  Or any such thing.
[00:48:22]  There was one sign that said holiday decorations.
[00:48:26]  You know what's funny?

=== Hate and Honor (10:51) ===

[00:48:28]  When it's Halloween, it never says holiday.
[00:48:31]  It says Halloween.
[00:48:32]  Right.
[00:48:33]  And the decoration was a cheap plastic children's pinwheel with a very stylized stars and stripes motif.
[00:48:42]  And this is Staten Island.
[00:48:44]  Right, which you would have to really stretch to see that it represents the flag.
[00:48:49]  I can say maybe one store is sold out, but I went across the street to the other store.
[00:48:55]  Different chain.
[00:48:58]  Same situation.
[00:48:59]  No advertisements.
[00:49:01]  Nothing that said the 4th of July.
[00:49:02]  The same plastic pinwheel.
[00:49:05]  And I can't believe that both stores across the street from each other in one neighborhood are like sold out.
[00:49:11]  Yeah.
[00:49:11]  Well, thank you, sir.
[00:49:13]  I don't know what to say.
[00:49:14]  It's just unfortunate.
[00:49:17]  That's that I can say.
[00:49:18]  And I thank you for calling, of course.
[00:49:21]  Let's go to Marie in Santa Clarita, California.
[00:49:25]  Hi, Marie.
[00:49:26]  Hi, Dennis.
[00:49:27]  How are you?
[00:49:28]  Good.
[00:49:29]  Thank you.
[00:49:29]  I so appreciate you and doing your show on this day and for coming in today.
[00:49:34]  Good.
[00:49:34]  Thank you.
[00:49:35]  Well, I am an immigrant, but I wanted to...
[00:49:39]  Where are you from?
[00:49:41]  Pardon me?
[00:49:41]  Where are you from?
[00:49:43]  Argentina.
[00:49:45]  You must have come here at a very young age because you have absolutely no accent.
[00:49:50]  Right, I was three.
[00:49:51]  But I've been back to visit and I would never want to live there.
[00:49:55]  Yes.
[00:49:57]  So last summer I went with the church group to Spain because it was World Youth Day and we went to see the Pope and other religious activities.
[00:50:05]  But one of the group leaders asked me to stop waving the flag around because we had a huge American flag.
[00:50:13]  And he said to not do that and to be more discreet because people hate us.
[00:50:21]  But I refused.
[00:50:22]  Wait, this is World Youth Day?
[00:50:24]  Is this specifically the Catholic Church's World Youth Day?
[00:50:28]  Yes.
[00:50:29]  And they told you at the Catholic Church World Youth Day they hate us?
[00:50:34]  No, it was one of our group leaders.
[00:50:37]  It wasn't like any official person there.
[00:50:38]  It was just one of the people in our group.
[00:50:40]  I see.
[00:50:41]  And he asked me to stop waving the flag around because people hate us.
[00:50:45]  I see.
[00:50:46]  But I didn't.
[00:50:47]  This was July 4th, right?
[00:50:49]  Pardon me?
[00:50:50]  Was this July 4th?
[00:50:52]  No, it was last August.
[00:50:53]  Oh, you did it just in general.
[00:50:55]  You didn't do it in honor of July 4th.
[00:50:57]  No, it was...
[00:50:58]  I'm curious.
[00:51:00]  Were there any other delegations with flags?
[00:51:03]  Every other country brought a flag.
[00:51:05]  Everybody had a flag.
[00:51:09]  So he asked me to stop waving the American flag because people hate us.
[00:51:12]  So you know what you should have said?
[00:51:14]  You should have said, which one would you like me to wave?
[00:51:18]  The Belgian?
[00:51:20]  I want to wave a flag like everybody else.
[00:51:23]  What do you suggest, sir?
[00:51:27]  I wonder if you would object if you'd have waved the Vatican flag.
[00:51:33]  Probably not.
[00:51:34]  I'm not sure.
[00:51:35]  You might say, well, they hate us, you know.
[00:51:38]  They hate Catholics.
[00:51:39]  Exactly, exactly.
[00:51:40]  You could say it.
[00:51:41]  You know, what decent thing isn't hated in the world?
[00:51:47]  All right, there is so...
[00:51:48]  All right, so anyway...
[00:51:50]  All right, wait one second.
[00:51:51]  Hold on there, Marie.
[00:51:52]  So what happened?
[00:51:55]  Are you there?
[00:51:56]  Yes, I'm here.
[00:51:57]  Yeah, so what happened?
[00:51:58]  So a few minutes later, a total stranger ran up to us and said, Oh, I love America.
[00:52:03]  You guys mean so much to the world.
[00:52:06]  And he fussed about, spent a few minutes telling us how much he loves America.
[00:52:11]  Where was he from?
[00:52:13]  He was from Spain.
[00:52:15]  Oh, how ironic.
[00:52:17]  You should have said, Why don't you tell this to our group leader?
[00:52:19]  He did.
[00:52:20]  That was the funny thing.
[00:52:21]  He went right up to him out of the blue.
[00:52:26]  As we got to more of the groups, people started chanting USA as they saw us passing by and waving at us and cheering us.
[00:52:37]  It was amazing.
[00:52:38]  What a great story.
[00:52:41]  Yeah, they hate us.
[00:52:43]  You know who hate us?
[00:52:45]  The periodicals of the world and certain elements of certain types of ideas.
[00:52:57]  But guess where most people would like to live if they didn't want to live in their own country?
[00:53:02]  Take a guess.
[00:53:03]  I live in America.
[00:53:10]  I live in America.
[00:53:19]  Wait a minute.
[00:53:23]  Bring meaning to your 4th of July this year and find out how at PragerUniversity.com.
[00:53:36]  All right.
[00:53:53]  Thank you.
[00:53:54]  Thank you.
[00:53:55]  You're listening to The Dennis Prager Show, July 4th.
[00:53:59]  Honoring the holiday by broadcasting on it.
[00:54:02]  You're honoring it by being with me.
[00:54:04]  And you'll honor it further, or already did, depending on your time zone, with something meaningful done at your meal or at whatever you are.
[00:54:14]  Even if it's just two of you.
[00:54:15]  It doesn't have to be a whole family.
[00:54:17]  It doesn't have to be with a lot of friends.
[00:54:21]  Just one other person can make it meaningful.
[00:54:27]  Not everybody today is having people over or going to somebody.
[00:54:31]  It's just the nature of life.
[00:54:35]  And it's a real delight to broadcast on the holidays.
[00:54:40]  Not a delight to get up early, but it's a delight to do it and to have done it.
[00:54:45]  I really get a lot from this, because you should know I say this a lot, and you know it's true.
[00:54:51]  You know I mean it.
[00:54:52]  I get as much from you as I hope you get from me.
[00:54:55]  That's a lot.
[00:54:56]  It's a big deal.
[00:54:59]  All righty, let's go to Phoenix, Arizona and Shao Chin.
[00:55:05]  Is that correct?
[00:55:06]  Did I pronounce it correctly?
[00:55:08]  That's correct.
[00:55:09]  Thank you.
[00:55:13]  It's very good to call you.
[00:55:16]  I appreciate the Flying Tiger helped the Chinese.
[00:55:22]  During the Japanese invasion in China.
[00:55:25]  And I'm from Taiwan.
[00:55:27]  By the way, may I just say that the Japanese invasion of China is one of the least known mass atrocities of the 20th century.
[00:55:40]  And everybody should read The Rape of Nanking.
[00:55:45]  It is one of the most important books you can read.
[00:55:48]  Is it up there in our most important books?
[00:55:50]  It may not be.
[00:55:51]  We need to put it there.
[00:55:53]  So I thank you for thanking me and reminding me to tell people about that.
[00:55:58]  Please go ahead.
[00:55:59]  Yes.
[00:56:01]  天有美国, that's in Chinese, God bless America.
[00:56:06]  Okay, let's do it slowly, please.
[00:56:11]  天有美国,美国 means America.
[00:56:14]  美国?
[00:56:15]  Yes, beautiful country.
[00:56:16]  Is that really?
[00:56:17]  Is that the word?
[00:56:18]  Because I know you make symbols to make a word.
[00:56:22]  It means beautiful country?
[00:56:24]  Yes.
[00:56:25]  By the way, doesn't China mean Middle Kingdom?
[00:56:30]  Yeah, that long time back we thought we are the center of the world.
[00:56:35]  Right, exactly.
[00:56:35]  I use that a lot in speeches and I wanted to verify that with you.
[00:56:39]  And now please, and now just for our collection.
[00:56:43]  You have a right to remain silent.
[00:56:47]  In Chinese.
[00:56:51]  Translate in Chinese?
[00:56:52]  Yes.
[00:56:52]  You have a right to remain silent.
[00:56:55]  Whoa, by the end of that, the guy is, he's given up.
[00:57:07]  He has pleaded guilty.
[00:57:11]  All right, so now say it without any hesitation.
[00:57:14]  Go right ahead.
[00:57:15]  Thank you.
[00:57:20]  All right.
[00:57:21]  God bless you.
[00:57:23]  I'm curious, have you visited China?
[00:57:26]  Yes.
[00:57:27]  I was from Taiwan.
[00:57:28]  My parents were from mainland China and moved to...
[00:57:33]  To Taiwan.
[00:57:34]  I love Taiwan.
[00:57:36]  I've always loved it.
[00:57:37]  I've been there a number of times.
[00:57:38]  I love it much more than visiting China.
[00:57:40]  And I always tell people, you want to visit Chinese culture, you go to Taiwan.
[00:57:45]  You want to visit a secular totalitarian or dictatorship, go to China.
[00:57:51]  No, it drives me crazy.
[00:57:53]  Listen, thank you so much.
[00:57:54]  It's very meaningful.
[00:57:56]  We've had people from all backgrounds.
[00:57:58]  Who are American, who have said, God bless America, whatever they want to say.
[00:58:02]  I haven't even asked.
[00:58:02]  The only thing I ask them is, you have a right to remain silent.
[00:58:05]  Sean, you have a lot of homework to do now, because Urdu has begun it, but we now have Slovenian, Russian, Czech, and Chinese.
[00:58:15]  All right.
[00:58:16]  Thank you.
[00:58:17]  Beautiful country.
[00:58:18]  Isn't that something?
[00:58:19]  I'm amazed that the Chinese government allows that to remain the word for America.
[00:58:24]  Except, you know what they would say?
[00:58:26]  Oh, it's natural beauty.
[00:58:28]  It has natural beauty.
[00:58:29]  I'll bet that was it.
[00:58:31]  All right, we go to Maryland now.
[00:58:34]  Potomac, Maryland.
[00:58:35]  Martin, hi.
[00:58:36]  Yes.
[00:58:37]  Yes, can you hear me?
[00:58:38]  One minute, one minute.
[00:58:40]  Come in, come in.
[00:58:41]  I'm here.
[00:58:42]  All right, one minute, one minute.
[00:58:43]  Hello?
[00:58:43]  Wait, I gotcha.
[00:58:45]  Okay.
[00:58:47]  First time speaking with you, only an occasional listener.
[00:58:50]  I want to mention, as long as you brought up the rape of Nan King, I attended a book event with Iris Chang at my favorite left-wing bookstore, Politics and Prose in D.C. I was just there last week to be the aunt at the picnic for David Marinus on his new Obama book.

=== Woe Unto A Country (07:01) ===

[00:59:15]  He's in the tank for Obama, which he wasn't for Clinton.
[00:59:19]  In first of his class, he wrote a very even-handed book, in my opinion.
[00:59:27]  But getting back to Iris Chang, she was the daughter of two professors at the University of Illinois.
[00:59:37]  She had a journalism degree and a master's degree from Johns Hopkins, and she was brilliant as she was good-looking.
[00:59:47]  And she suffered a nervous breakdown about a year after I saw her.
[00:59:55]  And she ended up killing herself.
[00:59:58]  I know, I know.
[00:59:59]  It is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
[01:00:02]  I just wanted to thank you for the thoughts you've expressed in coming to work today.
[01:00:10]  And I'll leave you with this quote, which is part of my belief.
[01:00:16]  Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby, George Bernard Shaw, and thank you for all your work.
[01:00:23]  Well, that's very kind of you.
[01:00:25]  I do better than that.
[01:00:27]  It's my hobby and my passion.
[01:00:30]  That's true.
[01:00:32]  Yep, that is right.
[01:00:33]  It's certainly a major contributor to my happiness.
[01:00:36]  I thank you, sir.
[01:00:38]  I appreciate that.
[01:00:41]  And let's go to...
[01:00:46]  From Santa Ana, California.
[01:00:49]  Carlos.
[01:00:49]  Hello, Carlos.
[01:00:50]  Dennis Prager.
[01:00:52]  Hello, Dennis.
[01:00:52]  This is Carlos.
[01:00:53]  Hi.
[01:00:54]  I just wanted to say how much I love this country.
[01:00:57]  I'm not even a citizen yet, but I came here when I was one and a half.
[01:01:01]  My parents brought me over.
[01:01:03]  From where?
[01:01:03]  I'm a resident alien.
[01:01:05]  Where did they bring you from?
[01:01:08]  Mexico.
[01:01:09]  Mexico.
[01:01:11]  And I just love this country so much.
[01:01:16]  You've helped me, you know, love it more.
[01:01:21]  And it's just such a wonderful gift to be able to live here and be free and be in pursuit of happiness, as you say.
[01:01:31]  We can't wait for you to become a citizen.
[01:01:35]  Thank you.
[01:01:36]  You're welcome.
[01:01:38]  Was that beautiful or was that beautiful?
[01:01:40]  You have a choice.
[01:01:43]  This is what Americans need to hear.
[01:01:45]  With all the absurd self-laceration that takes place.
[01:01:51]  You are listening to The Dennis Prager Show on July 4th.
[01:01:55]  The Dennis Prager Show on July 4th.
[01:02:25]  The Dennis Prager Show on July 4th.
[01:02:45]  I walked out from...
[01:02:47]  Out of my house this morning, and there was an American flag flying, and I was very grateful to my wife for putting it up.
[01:02:55]  It's a statement.
[01:02:57]  It's not a statement of your politics.
[01:02:59]  It's a statement of your values.
[01:03:03]  The notion that, hey, I'm patriotic, but I don't believe in any patriotic acts is like saying, I love my spouse, but I don't believe in doing anything loving.
[01:03:12]  It's the same exact thing.
[01:03:14]  Nobody really gives a damn what's in your heart.
[01:03:16]  They give a damn what's in your actions.
[01:03:19]  It's true about everything.
[01:03:21]  From love of spouse to love of children to love of country to anything else.
[01:03:27]  It doesn't matter what you feel.
[01:03:29]  It matters what you do.
[01:03:31]  And that is why patriotic acts are more important than patriotic feelings.
[01:03:40]  But we do live in the age of stupidity and inaugurated in the 1960s.
[01:03:46]  And then it was declared hypocritical to ever do something that you didn't feel.
[01:03:54]  Woe unto anybody who is the child of a parent who only did what they felt like doing.
[01:04:02]  Woe unto anybody married to anybody who only does what they feel like doing.
[01:04:08]  Woe unto a country whose citizens only do what they feel like doing.
[01:04:17]  So you put the flag out because it is a statement, this House honors this country on this day.
[01:04:25]  Period.
[01:04:26]  End of issue.
[01:04:28]  It doesn't mean you're Republican.
[01:04:29]  It doesn't mean you're Democrat.
[01:04:31]  It doesn't mean you're liberal.
[01:04:32]  It doesn't mean you're conservative.
[01:04:34]  It means you are an intelligent member of the American people.
[01:04:40]  That's all it means.
[01:04:45]  All of your calls are and have been tremendously meaningful.
[01:04:50]  Laura in Cleveland, Sue and Bill in Pennsylvania, Jonathan in Colorado, Chris in New York, Richard in Woodland Hills, California.
[01:04:59]  I wish I could take your calls.
[01:05:02]  If I broadcast for 24 hours, I would have to say to some people, I wish I could take your calls.
[01:05:10]  God bless this country.
[01:05:11]  It needs His blessings.
[01:05:14]  More important, it needs to earn His blessings.
[01:05:18]  I'm Dennis Prager.
[01:05:19]  I wish you a wonderful and meaningful July 4th.
[01:05:24]  From sea to shining sea, oh Lord, oh Lord, thank you Jim.
[01:05:40]  Shining sea.
[01:05:44]  Dennis Prager here.
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