The final minute of Secretary Marco Rubio’s address in Athens is truly spellbinding if you listen closely.

This will go down as one of the greatest speeches ever delivered by a Secretary of State.

He perfectly weaved in the history of ancient Greece to show why Western civilization is worth fighting for.

Most importantly, it was a warning to the rest of Europe about what could be lost if the West forgets where it came from.

RUBIO: “But Europeans and our friends across the West must relearn the lessons our forefathers took from this place and from its history.”

“The history of Greece does not just offer us a glimpse of our institutions in the earliest forms. The history of Greece shows us an image of ourselves.”

“It shows us that ours is the inheritance of great heroes and we should be proud, intensely proud, where we come from.”

“We should marvel at what our forefathers carved out of this countryside.”

“The story of our civilization is the greatest story ever known to man, and it began here with the first men and women of the West, from them, from them we can rediscover the virtues, the courage and the strength to confront the dangers that we face in our time.”

The entire place erupted in applause at the end.

That was a special moment from Rubio.