The Essential Transcript is to 2:05
In ancient days, the most feared, the most vicious warriors known to man, were Spartans. Never known to retreat. Never known to surrender.
...close quart combat. But the thing about Sparta, was a city-state that had no walls. That's how much they were feared. But when you understood what made the Spartan men strong, it was the Spartan women. Because the Spartan women, at the age of 9, gave up their male sons. And their male sons went into a training that was called the Agoge and they stayed in that training for the next 11 - 12 years.
And when they were finally qualified, when they were finally ready to join the ranks for the Spartan army, it was not their father who gave them their cloak and shield, it was their mother who gave them their shield. And when the Spartan mother gave that young Spartan warrior his shield, she gave him this basic commandment: “Spartan, here is your shield. Come back bearing this shield or being borne upon it!”
When Queen Gorgo, wife of King Leonidas, was questioned by the Persian emissary and she somewhat spoke out of turn to this Persian emissary, he tried to rebuke her. And she looked at him and said “Persian, beware, for it is Spartan women who raise Spartan men.”
What we must understand here, is that the reason why I am standing here before you, is that a mother who said to me one simple thing, one simple commandment. And that was, "A man must stand for something, or else he will fall for anything."
It is very obvious to many of us now, and will be to those of the future, that like Nazi Germany falling religiously fanatic over their new (then) "leader" or "fuhrer", a whole Media and more than half the voting public in America fell for the anything...even a unconstitutional candidate and now unconstitutional putative President named Barack Hussein Obama II, a Muslim pretending to call himself a Christian.
Wherefore by their fruits shall ye know them. Matthew 7:20
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