On Independence Day (July 4, 2026), Marco Rubio released a video celebrating America and Americans. This country gospel ballad is adapted from Marco’s words in that video (https://x.com/SecRubio/status/2073402543158231160).

Marco Rubio on America lyrics

There are things, lots of thingsMore precious than wealthMore valuable than safetyThere are great causes more importantThan even life itself

Our founders knew that libertyWas not an abstractionFloating above historyThey knew that parchment promisesAlone could not make a nation free

A constitution is only as strongAs the people it belongs to

America has never beenMerely a propositionIt has always beenA real and living civilizationA unique and distinctive peopleUnlike any other nation or peopleIn the history of the world

America is an exceptional nationBecause Americans areAn exceptional peopleWe are a people bornOn the edge of the known world

We are a frontier nationFrom the hardy pioneersOn the Oregon TrailTo astronauts transcendingThe limits of Earth itselfAmerica made the frontierA principle of national life

The people who built our countryWere heroes and heroinesAmong the greatestAnd the most noblethat the world has ever seen

This is the greatest nation on EarthThat has been true for 250 yearsAnd with God’s graceIt will be trueFor the next 250 as well

America has never beenMerely a propositionIt has always beenA real and living civilizationA unique and distinctive peopleUnlike any other nation or peopleIn the history of the world

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