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But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.

Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.

If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.

Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.

There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.

The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.