Melian wrote:
“Re Follow the PEN:
Maybe drop 1425 becomes relevant following LE Pen...election.”
Good catch!!
Excerpts from Ronald Reagan’s farewell speech. (Ringing true today, in light of QAnon):
...The lesson of all this was, of course, that because we’re a great nation, our challenges seem complex. It will always be this way. But as long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours.
And something else we learned: once you begin a great movement, there’s no telling where it’ll end. We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.
Countries across the globe are turning to free markets and free speech - and turning away from the ideologies of the past. For them, the Great Rediscovery of the 1980’s has been that, lo and behold, the moral way of government is the practical way of government. Democracy, the profoundly good, is also the profoundly productive...
...Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: “We the People.”
“We the People” tell the Government what to do, it doesn’t tell us. “We the people” are the driver - the Government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world’s constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which “We the People” tell the Government what it is allowed to do. “We the people” are free....
...But oddly enough it starts with one of the things I’m proudest of in the past eight years; the resurgence of national pride that I called “the new patriotism.” This national feeling is good, but it won’t count for much, and it won’t last unless it’s grounded in thoughtfulness and knowledge.
An informed patriotism is what we want. And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world?...