Now listen, we know the language well. It rolls off our tongues. We don't think about how revolutionary that statement was, but my, was it revolutionary. We're the first nation in the history of the world founded upon such a creed. We eliminated the king, the middleman, we eliminated the sovereign on the earth. Because the founders were students of scripture and they understood that our rights do not derive from government, they come from God himself. (04:49–04:54)
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Asserts that the United States is the first nation founded on a creed of self-evident truths.
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