Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took the oath of workplace on Tuesday morning, surrounded by his spouse and youngsters, starting his second time period as governor of Florida.
“Freedom lives right here in our nice Sunshine State of Florida,” DeSantis stated Tuesday in entrance of Florida’s historic state capitol, conscious that the eyes of not solely the nation but additionally former President Donald Trump have been upon him. “When the world misplaced its thoughts, when frequent sense all of the sudden turned an unusual advantage— Florida was a refuge for sanity, a refuge for freedom.”
The 44-year-old governor gained his reelection marketing campaign in a landslide in November. His marketing campaign launched a “Freedom Agenda” in August touting the governor’s accomplishments and providing a information to different states to comply with Florida’s instance on legislation and order, parental rights, financial coverage, and the atmosphere.
On Tuesday morning, DeSantis emphasised that combating for freedom has grow to be tougher than ever because the “threats to freedom are extra complicated and extra widespread than they’ve been prior to now.”
“However battle we should. We embrace our founding creed that our rights aren’t granted by the courtesy of the state, however are endowed by the hand of the Almighty,” he stated. “We reject the concept that self authorities will be subcontracted out to technocratic elites who scale back human beings to mere information factors. We insist on the restoration of time-tested constitutional ideas in order that authorities of, by, and for the folks shall not perish from this earth.”
Through the ceremony, DeSantis used the “Bible of the Revolution” or the “Aitken Bible,” the final Bible commissioned by Congress in 1782 and the primary English Bible printed in North America, according to the Blaze. The Founding Fathers used this Bible, one of many rarest books on this planet, and DeSantis used it on mortgage from the Blaze co-founder Glenn Beck.
Florida’s first woman, Casey DeSantis, held the historic Bible, flanked by the three DeSantis kids, whereas the governor took his oath of workplace.
Beck stated that he provided each the Aitken Bible and Mary Todd Lincoln’s Bible to DeSantis to be used through the inauguration.
“I provided Gov. DeSantis the usage of these Bibles for his use at his oath of workplace ceremony in Florida, as I imagine his work within the state has actual historic significance. It’s the starting of a renewal of the ideas for which our Founders fought,” Beck advised The Blaze.
“Florida has led the best way in preserving what the daddy of our nation referred to as ‘the sacred hearth of liberty,’” DeSantis stated in his Tuesday remarks. “It’s the hearth that burned in Independence Corridor, when fifty six males pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to determine a brand new nation conceived in liberty. It’s the fireplace that burned at a cemetery in Gettysburg, when the nation’s first Republican president pledged to this nation a brand new beginning of freedom.”
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“It’s the fireplace that burned among the many boys who stormed the seashores of Normandy, to liberate a continent and to protect freedom for the world. It’s the fireplace that infused the younger preacher’s dream, relayed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, that the Declaration of Independence stated what it meant and meant what it stated: All males are created equal.”
“It’s the hearth that led a resolute president to face in Berlin and declare ‘Tear down this wall,’ staring down the communists and profitable the Chilly Struggle. It’s our duty right here in Florida to hold this torch. We don’t run from this duty. We welcome it, we can be on our guard, we are going to stand agency within the religion, we can be brave, we can be robust and we thank God and are proud to be residents of the nice free state of Florida.”
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