We are the United States, one people, one nation and that nation with its heritage of liberty and freedom is indivisible. Freedom divided is no longer free. Liberty segmented and rationed is no liberty. Justice accorded only to some is justice denied to all. You are either for freedom or you are against it; for liberty or against it; for justice or the enemy of justice. You are either for America and its heritage extended for all or you are against America. Freedom, liberty and justice are indivisible.

The liberty to worship your god by whatever name that god is called; whether you do so in a church, a synagogue, a mosque, or in the fields and forests is indivisible. The right to be free from having someone’s preferred form of worship imposed upon you in public life is indivisible. You are either for Freedom of Religion or you are against it.

The freedom to speak and publish ideas whether or not they are pleasing to the powerful is indivisible. That freedom cannot be confined to convenient times or caged in obscure places. To stifle one voice is to silence them all. You are either for Freedom of Speech or you are against it.

The self-evident truth that all men are created equal with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is indivisible. Deny the opportunity to exercise those rights to any one person because of his father’s religion; the pigment of his skin; the country in which his mother was born; or the content of his family’s purse and you deny that person’s talents and ability from benefiting our indivisible nation. You are either for the common good or you are against it.

Abraham Lincoln understood wedges. He used them to rive hickory logs into fence rails. But it was he who called us to witness a new birth of freedom in a nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. He led us in that great struggle to prevent the United States of America from being driven apart. His party, the Grand Old Party, once stood for the proposition that this was one indivisible nation no matter what issues set us apart from one another. The Rail Splitter has been replaced in the White House by a Nation Splitter using wedge issues to divide an indivisible people; to segment an indivisible nation; and to split the United States of America into them and us and calls that Patriotism.

Patriotism in America is not divisible. It is not blind obedience to the powerful. In America patriotism embraces the whole of its heritage, the body of its tradition; the entire of its Constitution. Patriotism is neither rationed nor partitioned nor exercised part-time. It, like the United States of America, is indivisible. You are either for this indivisible nation or you are against it.