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Convocation | Gov. Ron DeSantis

Mar 21, 2024
thank you foreigner foreigner foreigner Lu my name is Riley and my name is Mish the music school will have its final winning symphony concert on April 25 at 7:30 p.m. m. and on April 28 at 7:30 they will also have their commercial music exhibition. please come to both concerts tickets are a dollar I know you have a doll in your pocket somewhere that's okay and you can get your tickets at liberty.edu so the Rada Palooza is from 5 to 8 p.m. on the rod on April 25 and this is going It will be the last event of the semester until the new Rod opens so it will be there so the eluvian Stage Company will present Music Man starting on April 21 and this will be a performance amazing that will continue until May 7th, so make sure guys, come and see one of the shows, well it's that time of year when we're approaching graduation and we hope you've made some amazing memories this semester.
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Any memories you have, text them to 839-858. Share the love. Student. Activities will host an outdoor movie night with The Princess Diaries 2 and it will be on April 22 at 8 p.m. m., bring your friends and get yourself some popcorn, don't forget. Student Activities will have a video game night on the 21st and it will be at 8 p.m. m. in the La Haye event space with a console and games room, so the fashion show will take place in the School of Music concert hall at 8 p.m. m. tomorrow April 15th and if you want to see some amazing designers from this very campus, visit liberty.edu. ready for the after party, this will be in the lahay parking lot on april 29th at 5pm. there will be good food, live music, carnival attractions and much more, so you guys will come better, thank you, so Assad's annual fashion show will be on April 21. and our girl here is into it, so you guys should definitely come, there will be a lot of fun culture, a lot of dancing, a lot of music, a lot of fashion, right?
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And you guys should definitely show up and you could also dress up. because it's going to be an incredible night and she's referring to the galas to the Met galas dress up dress well that's all the new foreigner you have no right to be ordinary God has called you to be extraordinary Freedom good morning what would you say to your feet I'm going to worship our firm foundation this morning yes, check it out with me Christ is my first foundation when everything around me shakes. I have never been happier to have put my faith in Jesus because he has never let me down, he is faithful. together, so I would, he would fill, she won't, if he doesn't want to come, see I have joy, only you, faithful in every season, you always, Foundation, Jesus, yes, yes, it's strange, Jesus , that's why we saw them this morning.
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You have never let us down, come on, declare that this rain is gone, come on, Liberty singing, today you are safe in her arms. I'm safe with you. I'll make it, oh, I'll make it through the Foundation when everything else. thank you your face he won't yes come on sing it here you are the truth today no he wants you would praise him today thank you Lord we put our trust in you Jesus it only takes one word from Jesus knows the voice is saying the The stars will fall amazingly, the darkness she fears The Voice that made her retreat before and though the night has returned once more, come on, say it out loud, a word, this is a word from you, Lord, and my fight is not mine, we give it.
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Overlord said that's all. things these days things rise he is true Stay with me the glory will help in our freedoms the foreigner will be alone flee your Sonos will move just remember yourself right now sing sing foreigner yours Authority We trust you Lord in a praise Trust you Lord early in the heart s holy holy merciful God and three people Holy Trinity oh you are high oh you are so in love with you your whole answers praise Halloween holy holy you are merciful you are the blessings you are worthy Jesus Christ exterior thank you and from there Lord God let us pray together Heavenly Father you we give thanks today that you are who you are God that you are holy that you are the name above all names that as we navigate and walk through a life that is so uncertain a life full of brokenness, pain and pain that God, you are always the constant, you are always a loving, merciful and gracious god, and so today we thank you that we can depend on you, that we can count on you and we pray that today as we walk for Lord this day and every day to come God that we can always return to you in every situation and that in you we find our hope in you we find our peace in you we find our comfort and everything comes because of your great love for us and that you sent your son Jesus who died on the cross for us who was buried and resurrected three days after and because he did it by believing in him we have salvation and life in his name God we thank you for the gift of Jesus and it is in his name we pray amen, go ahead and take a seat, you know that one of the unique things about Liberty University since all our history is that we have always had the opportunity for people coming from many different walks of life to talk about the lives of our students looking back at our history we have had presidents and vice presidents we have had senators and congressmen we have had global business leaders we have had the opportunity From listening to professional athletes, we've had the opportunity to listen to a lot of different leaders and educators who have come in and brought wisdom to this idea of ​​what it means to be a champion for Christ just in the last year that we've had. the opportunity to hear from a former Vice President, we have had the opportunity to hear from a former Secretary of State, we have had the opportunity to hear from many different people, including our own Governor here in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Glenn Younkin.
I've had the opportunity to listen to our Attorney General Jason Mayares and so it's in the spirit of what we've always done, whether it's Ted Kennedy and Bernie Sanders on the left or Ronald Reagan or George Bush on the right. We have come to Liberty to help us see what it means to be a champion of Christ and today it makes no difference and although we were able to hear from our governor of Virginia not long ago today, for you Floridians, today you can hear from our governor of Virginia . Florida's current governor, Ron DeSantis, grew up in Florida, grew up in a working-class family, worked his way through Yale and then Harvard Law School, while graduating with honors.
After graduating with honors, he entered the United States Navy where he served, was deployed to Iraq and served alongside the Navy Seals while there after returning from Iraq and after his service went on to represent our nation as a prosecutor federal and later became a congressman from Florida's 6th district before running. He ran for governor in 2018 and won not only then but also in 2022 and is currently serving as the 46th governor of the state of Florida. He and his wife Casey lived there. his wife Casey, a cancer survivor, a former Emmy Award-winning television host. have three three beautiful children and have the opportunity to lead that great state and I think for all of us who have the opportunity to know who Governor DeSantis is, there is no doubt that he has always been a person who fights for rights. that are granted not only by the Constitution but by rights that come directly from God.
He has fought for the freedoms of Floridians and in fact last night he was speaking in Ohio and he flew back to Florida and last night after the legislature. there in Florida passed the bill, signed the heartbeat protection law and by signing it, the law in the state of Florida will protect all unborn babies because it recognizes that life is a gift from God and that is why Governor DeSantis is our mission here. At Liberty we have always been singularly focused on raising champions for Christ and so we thank you today for coming to help inspire our students to become champions for Christ and whatever you can do, would you please join me in welcoming the 46th Governor of the State of Florida, Ron DeSantis, Foreign Liberty University, I bring you greetings from the free state of Florida and, just as a matter of personal privilege, I would like to thank many of you for thinking and praying for my family when my wife Casey Florida was first born.
This lady was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021 and I can tell you this when we got the news and we were talking about it as a family deciding if this would be something we would make public in those days and maybe even a week where it was private, it was difficult, you didn't know what was going to happen, you have a mother of three very young children and you see that life can be very fragile, but I will tell you this when we publish the statement so that people know. that this is something that she was going to have to fight against the prayers that we received as a result of that lifted her spirit, she was able to go through excruciating treatment and surgery and I can tell you right now that she has never been healthier.
It has never been better, prayers have been answered and we are proud of what she did to be a role model for other women and we are proud of what she has done to help the great state of Florida. We are also proud of the role Florida has played in our country over these past four years when freedom and our own way of life and so many other jurisdictions across our land withered on the vine. Florida held the line we choose facts over fear, we choose education over indoctrination, we choose the law. in order over unrest and disorder when the world went crazy when common sense suddenly became a rare virtue Florida stood as a refuge of sanity a citadel of freedom for people throughout our country and indeed in everyone we faced attacks we took the hits we withstood storms, but we stood firm, we did not back down, we had the convictions that guided us and we had the courage to lead and thanks to our efforts, Florida now leads the nation, we are number one in the country in net migration, we are the first. the number one fastest growing state in these United States we are number one in new business formation, of course, we are number one in tourism, we are number one in economic freedom, we are number one in educational freedom, We are number one in parental involvement in education, and as proud as we are of that, it's important to note that none of that was predetermined when I ran for governor in 2018.
I ran as an underdog, a lot of people had told me ruled out, we were able to win the election, but we won the election by 32,000 votes. Out of over 8 million votes cast, that's less than half of one percent and if you look at the history of Florida, that was nothing out of the question. out of the ordinary in terms of how these races had gone if we go back 10 years 2010 14 12 16 18 presidential race the race for governor in Florida is almost always decided by one point and that's why they told me, listen, this state has a balance very valuable politician.
You got in by the skin of your teeth. Don't rock the boat, bide your time, keep your head down because I never know that if you get too excited about something, you could end up losing support and not be able to win elections in the future. I understood that advice and it wasn't crazy advice, but I still rejected it. My point of view is very simple. I got 50 percent of the vote, but that gave me the right to exercise 100 percent of executive power, and I intended to do that to advance an agenda that I believe was right for the state of Florida.
We wouldn't make that agenda based on finger pointing. in the wind or looking at the polls and, in fact, to this day, as Governor, I have never conducted a poll on any issue in all my time, leaders are not captive to the results of polls, leaders establish a vision, leaders execute that vision and leaders deliver results and When you do that, no matter what the previous polls were, you can change public opinion. People will support you if they see that you are doing a good job. We also understood that as Governor you can make the best decisions in the world.
They could have the best policies in the world, but if you don't have a group of people in your administration who share the mission and put the mission before their personal interests, none of this will end up happening. so we make it very clear to anyone who serves in our Administration, if you have any agenda other than what is best for the people of Florida, pack your bags right now and we will show you the door. We also said that we are not just going to sit back and try to avoid problems or wait for the problems to be resolved.
We don't want to get into things because we're worried about creating any kind of blowback. Whatever decision you make as a leader, there will be some people who will like it. There are other people who don't and some elected officials think well, if I just don't make decisions and I'm just not out and about, then fewer people will disapprove of some of the decisions you make. We have to be okay here, it's okay, we're okay, thank you, so sometimesThey just want to be in office and basically act like potted plants, well that's not what we were going to do in Florida.
I said we're going to go on the offensive. from day one we will make sure to identify issues where we are aggressive in raising issues that are important to the people of our state and I don't care what the media says, I'm going to do what I think is right and that is the framework of work that we did and we finally understood when we took office that when you are elected to an executive position you know that it should not be the same as being elected to some of these other positions, not that they are not important, but the number one quality that a executive is leadership and leadership is really about having the courage to make difficult decisions in the face of opposition and in the face of criticism, a leader must have the confidence to stand alone if the moment demands it and therefore what ended happening in Florida when we arrived we were clicking away doing a lot of things. cool stuff and then covid hit and that really changed everything and I had to make decisions as a leader: do I just go along with the crowd or do I look at these things myself and make decisions that are going to cut against the grain, yeah, it opens up?
I subjected myself to great criticism. No governor in this country was attacked more by Legacy Media and the political left than I was, but I had to make the decision. Do you know why you are in this? Are you in this to protect your own political skin? You have to be willing to put the interests of the people you represent before putting their jobs ahead of trying to protect your own job and that's what we did when we handled Covid. I didn't know how the political chips fell, but I was 100% willing to let it fall wherever as long as I could look in the mirror knowing I did what I thought was right, so let's fast forward to November 2022.
You know, we did it in our own way, we did it our way and The results were that we didn't win by just 32,000 votes, we won by over 1.5 million votes that we got. We are at the highest percentage of the vote that any Republican gubernatorial candidate has received in the history of the state of Florida. We won 62 percent of the Hispanic vote we want independence by 18 percentage points we were able to help secure supermajorities in the Florida House of Representatives and Senate we were able to help elect 29 conservative school board members across the state of Florida who defend parental rights and standing up for a good curriculum and now, after the 2022 elections, for the first time since the Civil War era, there is not a single Democrat elected to state office in the state of Florida and You can see in how people have voted with their feet and how they have decided to register to vote when I was elected governor there were almost 300,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans in the state of Florida and never in the history of Florida have there been more registered Republicans and Democrats, Well, when I was re-elected, not only did we have more Republicans and Democrats, but we had 300,000 more Republicans and Democrats in November, but understand, we were 300,000 ahead, so the train is still running, now we have 455,000 more Republicans and Democrats registered.
These are people who changed their registration, went from independent to R, went from D to r, a Legacy Media Outlet when they saw what happened with the elections and registration. Trends had a headline that said quote, no plan, no nothing, Florida Democrats desperate for future. I don't know about you, but if you are from my area and have my perspective, that is what you call winning and that is why we are doing it in Florida and as important as the elections of '22 were, the reality is that Americans have actually been Voting for many years, they have simply been voting with their feet and the results of that behavior have been as harsh as our landslide victory in November.
States and cities governed by left-wing politicians pursuing a left-wing ideology have seen crime skyrocket. They have seen their taxpayers abused, they have seen medical authoritarianism prevail, and they have seen fundamental American principles discarded. The woke agenda has caused millions of Americans to leave these jurisdictions in search of greener pastures. This has been a huge exodus of Americans. Florida has served as the most desired city. destiny a Promised Land of sanity and a world that has become increasingly crazy we have embraced Freedom we have maintained Law and Order we have protected parental rights we have elevated the importance of family and promoted a culture of life we ​​have respected our taxpayers and we have rejected the woke ideology thank you, we fought woke in the legislature we fought woke and the corporations we fought woke and the schools we never surrendered to the woke mob we have made Florida the state where the wokeness is going to die The woke mind virus represents a war on merit, it represents a war on achievement, it is a form of cultural Marxism that seeks to use identity politics to divide Americans, but perhaps, above all, wokeness It represents a war against the truth and, as a leader, I do not.
I'm looking for adulation I'm not looking for any fanfare all I'm looking for is the search for truth now the truth is the key to leading a fulfilling life having a strong family a prosperous community and even a successful state and country the truth is enduring you can try to cover it up you can try to hide it you can try to distort it But as time goes by the deception and the lies fade and what is true remains yes the truth will set you free because awakening represents a war against the Truth that we must wage war on awakening is bad that a teacher at school tells second graders that they may have been born in the wrong body or that their gender is a choice thank you in Florida gender ideology has no place in our schools and if that means drinking at Disney to make sure that's the case we will it's wrong for a swimmer to compete for three years on the men's swim team switch to the women's team and then win the Women's National Championship that's a fraud that's wrong too It's wrong for the doctors pump minors with puberty blockers or perform sex change operations on them, and in Florida now doctors who do those things to these minors will lose their medical license.
Truth matters, our country is reeling because many of our institutions have become decoupled from the truth and have been lost in a sea of ​​relativism. Our nation's founders understood that self-government does not operate on autopilot. They knew that freedom was fragile and required that we, as citizens, be good caretakers of our heritage of freedom. When the founding fathers met in Philadelphia in 1787 to design what became the United States Constitution, they came armed with having studied the history of every republic that had ever existed in human history because they wanted to draw lessons about what what had happened in the past and how they could apply those lessons to launch the American experiment and there was really only one thing that all of those previous republics had in common and that was that each of them had failed and failed miserably, so they understood that It really fell to the United States of America to determine once and for all whether people can truly govern themselves.
Could there be a society based on the idea that our rights have been given to us by God and that we should be governed by a rule of law and not by the whim of men or individual people? Is humanity forever destined to live under various forms of tyranny? And they correctly understood that it would be the American experiment that would ultimately answer that question, but they also knew that it was not as simple as just having a great Declaration of Independence and designing a great Constitution when Benjamin Franklin walked out of the federal convention in 1787.
He was stopped on the street by a woman who said to him, Dr. Franklin, what has a republic or a monarchy given us? and Franklin said a republic, ma'am, but only if you can. Keep it, they understood that the survival of the American experiment would require dedication to true American principles. We need to see a revival of those principles in our country today. We must embrace our founding Creed that our rights are not courtesy of the government they are. the gift of almighty God we must reject the idea that constitutional self-government can be outsourced to technocratic elites who reduce individuals to mere data points we must insist on the restoration of time-tested constitutional principles so that a government of and for the people will not perish on this Earth Florida has shown that it can be done, we offer a glimmer of hope that there will still be better days ahead.
I am proud of the accomplishments we have made in the state of Florida. It is my honor to be here and I look forward to the battles ahead. I will fight the good fight. I will finish the race and keep the faith. Thank you all. God bless you all. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Governor. We thank you for being here today. We have a whole group of people here that have to watch your back or you on the screen, so we're going to walk over here so they have a chance, so Governor, Governor DeSantis, we appreciate all of your leadership, we appreciate. how you've brought your faith to the marketplace and the public square and here at Liberty we always want to honor people who make those kinds of commitments and have that kind of success, so I want to invite our chancellor and chief academic officer Scott Hicks. for coming and we would like to honor you today as we would like to honor you today as we would like you to be a graduate of Liberty University so Scott if I could thank you sir we are very grateful for you on your behalf. from our students and from all of Liberty University it is an honor to have you here and it is a great lesson for us, so in some way we want to recognize you and I want to read something here.
We want to give you a special gift today. to recognize you for your service number one to God number two to your family number three to the United States number four to the great state of Florida and then five and six for defending our freedoms and the principles of Liberty here in our country we are very grateful For that, In light of that, by the powers vested in me by President Jerry Prevo, the Board of Trustees of Liberty University, it is our honor and privilege to confer upon you the honorary degree of the Doctor of Humane Letters.
Okay, thank you very much. let's say thank you again to Governor Ron DeSantis for being here today so today here at Liberty we have had the opportunity to hear from someone from our nation's history about what God raised this place to be and us as students, faculty and staff. Here at Liberty University we must work hard to ensure that we, as Benjamin Franklin said all those years ago, protect and defend this nation as one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. God bless you and have a great foreign day.

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