Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a speech at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention on Friday. 

It started off with a sweet familial moment, as he was introduced by his youngest daughter, Daniella, a third-year law student at the University of Virginia.

“Was that cool or what?” Rubio said proudly. He joked he didn't really like public speaking that much, but she had no stage fright. 

Rubio also joked about the "lawyer up" threat of Rep. Robert Garcia (CA-42) against Trump officials. 

His speech was a fascinating rebuke of the efforts of the global elites to dictate to America, a free people. 

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He called them out for trying to use "international law" to push their own interests under the pretense of universal principles. 

That fake International Criminal Court (ICC) cannot supersede our own sovereign nation's rights and laws, especially when we never signed up for it, he said. 

Rubio paraphrased Pompey the Great as a warning to the ICC: if they would try to enforce their edicts against us, "Stop quoting laws to men with swords."

Rubio explained how we had built a continental empire, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 

"When our predecessors first arrived in North America, there were no factories, no railroads, no skyscrapers. These things exist because we built them," he declared

Rubio chastised those who would presume to dictate to us and warned of the "spirit of Marx" that still existed. 

He boldly defended our right as a nation to chart our own course, as the radicals seek to "abolish the distinctions between nations themselves."

"The ultimate question of our time is whether Americans have a moral right to exist as a distinct nation and a distinct people, and thus to demand a government that defends and pursues our interests above all else," Rubio said. 

He spoke encouraging words in the wake of the midterm losses. 

“We have much more to do over the next two, the next six, the next 20 years,” he said. “Great things that last are built in decades, not election cycles.”

“There will be more victories, and there will be more defeats. There will be more triumphs, and there will be more disappointments. This is the nature of all undertakings of this weight and of this magnitude,” Rubio continued.  

“There are no great men or great causes in the pages of history that did not suffer the same,” he said defiantly, “but we are persuaded of the justice of our cause, and we too will triumph in the end.”

Rubio believes that we will again leave for our grandchildren "the single greatest nation in the history of the world." 

Rubio also took questions and hammered home the theme with one more comment: on foreign and domestic issues, we must always be on "the American side of every issue."