A Voice for Freedom: Newt Gingrich

I'm re-posting this because I love it so much, so once again, enjoy.

A reminder of where we've been and where we need to go.

We stand in front of the US capitol. In peacetime the Founding Fathers intended this to be the center of freedom. The Founding Fathers feared dictatorship and they set out to preserve freedom. They recognized that while God gives us freedom, people are all to often ready to take it away.


What we represent is as old as this country. It’s something that Lincoln or Jefferson or Washington would have understood. It is something, that Grant led people who died to preserve. It is the romantic, idealistic belief that a free people, just every day folks, of all backgrounds can come together and despite all the difficulties we built into the constitution to protect freedom, we can use that freedom to improve our lives and to improve the lives of our children.

If I had one message for this country on this day when we celebrate the act of keeping our word, it would be a simple message. Idealism is American. To be romantic is American.

It’s okay to be a skeptic, but don’t be a cynic. It’s okay to raise good questions, but don’t assume the worst. It’s okay to report difficulties, but it’s equally good to report victories.
Yes, we have problems and of course it’s going to be difficult to pass these things, but why should we be afraid of that? That is freedom.

It is in that spirit of committing ourselves idealistically, committing ourselves romantically – Believing in America, that we celebrate having kept our word and that we promise to create a new partnership so that together we and the American people can give our children and our country a new birth of freedom.

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Speaker Gingrich,
I hope you run for president, you are the candidate America needs. We need someone like you in the White House.

Posted by: Adam Yu | March 4, 2007 6:37 PM