07/04/2026
America's 250th birthday isn't a celebration of perfection. It's a celebration of one of history's most extraordinary experiments in liberty.
Today, I choose to celebrate the freedoms that generations of Americans have fought to secure and preserve: the freedom to speak our minds, worship as we choose, pursue our dreams, own property, build businesses, disagree peacefully, and participate in self-government.
Governments change. Leaders come and go. But the ideals of liberty, individual rights, equal justice, and opportunity are greater than any one person or political party.
My hope is that we never stop expecting integrity from those who serve, never stop defending our constitutional freedoms, and never take for granted the blessings that generations before us sacrificed to secure.
Every generation inherits both the blessings and the responsibility of preserving liberty.
Happy 250th Birthday to the United States of America!