Republicans, Get Over the 2012 Loss—and Start Fighting Back. By Liz Cheney. Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2013. Also find it here.
Liz Cheney Is Even More Bonkers Than We Suspected. By Jonathan Chait. New York Magazine, March 29, 2013.
Encroaching Control (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction”). By Ronald Reagan. Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, March 30, 1961. Full Text and Audio. Internet Archive. Audio of full speech on YouTube. Audio excerpt on YouTube.
Reagan:
Our
Founding Fathers, here in this country, brought about the only true revolution
that has ever taken place in man’s history. Every other revolution simply
exchanged one set of rulers for another set of rulers. But only here did that
little band of men so advanced beyond their time that the world has never seen
their like since, evolve the idea that you and I have within ourselves the
God-given right and the ability to determine our own destiny. But freedom is
never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to
our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we
have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it and then hand it to
them with the well-taught lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the
same. And if you and I don’t do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset
years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in
America when men were free.
