Last night, I was asked about the Civil War
and what I think of the Civil war, what
was the cause of the Civil War? Of course
, the Civil War was about slavery. We know
that that's unquestioned. Always the case. We know
the civil war was about slavery, but it was
also more than that. It was about the freedoms
of every individual. It was about the role of
government for 80 years. America had the decision and
the moral question of whether slavery was a good thing
and whether government economically, culturally, any other reasons
had a role to play in that by the grace
of God, we did the right thing and slavery
is no more. But the lessons of what the
bigger issue with the civil war are is that let's
not forget what came out of that, which is
government's role, individual liberties, freedom for every single
person, freedom of speech, freedom of religion,
freedom to do and be anything you wanna be without
anyone or government getting in your way. That should
be the goal of what we always try and take
away from that, right? Because we never wanna
return back to that. Place. But we always
wanna remember the lesson of what it means to be
a free individual and that everyone deserves to be a
free individual. So we stand by that. I
say that as a Southerner, I say that as
a southern governor who removed the confederate flag off the
statehouse grounds. And I say that as a proud
American of how far we have come.