None of these blessings would exist without the debt we owe the men who brought this nation into existence for 12 generations. Our nation is built upon that foundation. And on the sacred National Day, it is our duty to recall that no great nation can endure by forgetting, overturning or undermining its history and its principles. Nations do not survive by teaching younger generations to despise their country or themselves. That is how nations descend into self destruction. And what comes after is not a state of moral purity. (01:07–01:21)
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Asserts that a nation cannot endure by forgetting, overturning, or undermining its history and principles.
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