The speaker started by saying: First I want to thank you for allowing us to be here. Madame Rajavi, I was completely inspired by your remarks. It resonates with us because part of our Arizona constitution says that the political power is in inherent in the people, and governments derive their just power from the consent of the people, and is established to maintain individual rights. That is the same kind of government I hear Madame Rajavi talks about. It’s the same kind of government that we espouse and work with in Arizona. And the reason we can do that in Arizona is because we have had founding fathers that early on fought and laid down their lives to give us a country of liberty. One of those founding fathers was Patrick Henry. In one of his speeches he made he said:
“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the cost of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, All Mighty God, I know not what others may do, but for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
I have heard Madame Rajavi call for the people of Iran to pursue freedom, pursue liberty. I can tell from the experience in our country how we were founded. They were, our founding fathers, were fighting against the superpower of the world. Just amazingly atrocious odds of their success. But they fought in one wide, because they were dedicated. That fire that was ignited with Patrick Henry’s words of, give me liberty or give me death, permeated throughout the country. With that kind of commitment, that kind of diligence that kind of persistence, our liberty was won. I can say to the people of Iran it’s great that Americans, and there are millions of Americans that support you, we have had some people to talk, they are a token of the number of people that support and desire freedom in Iran. But the real difference is going to be made not by the people in the world. You cannot always depend on other countries. But you can depend on yourself and if that same passion that Madame Rajavi spoke about, that same passion that I see in the Iranian Americans that I talk too and the Iranians that are here, that same passion that says we want liberty that is willing to say no. Slavery and freedom as a choice I will choose freedom. If that resonates out throughout the people of Iran we will have this conference next year not in Paris, but in Tehran.
Give me liberty, or give me death