Chris McDaniel: Celebrating Independence Day

Chris McDaniel: Let’s remember our nation’s principles of freedom, sacrifice, unity

Beginning as America’s foundation for freedom

Independence Day gives us a chance to reflect on our country and take pride in our nation’s enduring principles.

On the Fourth of July 246 years ago, exemplary visionaries ratified the Declaration of Independence, daring to initiate the grandest experiment of self-governance in human history by creating a new form of government. It is constrained by the recognition of God-given inalienable rights, which the government may not take away nor infringe upon but must protect.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” is one of the most powerful statements of all time. Those words still ring loudly throughout the world today as America has taken its foundation of freedom and transformed it into the blueprint for the greatest nation on Earth.

This freedom has not come without sacrifice. Countless men and women have given their lives on and off the battlefield for our freedoms and rights. Civil and international wars have been fought to expand those freedoms to all people, and we continue that fight today.

Senator Chris McDaniel – Husband, Father, Veteran, & Small Business Owner

We are a nation that celebrates our differences; we do not persecute them because of them.

As we celebrate independence on July 4, we also celebrate our country’s unity despite our differences. Our nation and great Commonwealth were founded on a simple principle: “United we stand, divided we fall.”

As we celebrate with our family and friends this holiday, let us remember those principles of freedom, sacrifice, and unity. We are one nation under God, and together we will continue to live the lives our founding fathers envisioned for the future of this great nation.

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