Ben Sasse on the Space between Nebraska and Neverland (Live at Mason)
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The Most Underrated Part of American Government
The animating principle is this idea of universal human dignity, and it's intoxicating. We believe that people are created with dignity and their rights don't come to them from government. It isn't the benevolence of government that grants you the right to free speech, assembly, religion, press, protest or redress of grievances. That's an unbelievable idea. And then from that, we build a government that exists to secure those rights, but government's just a tool.
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