"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away
from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for
and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a
people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known
it again."

– Ronald Reagan

And that's why Ronald Reagan was, and still is, the MAN. His speech on
why government is dependant on religion is also fantastic.

"...I submit to you that the tolerant society is open to and encouraging
of all religions. And this does not weaken us; it strengthens us, it
makes us strong. You know, if we look back through history to all those
great civilizations, those great nations that rose up to even world
dominance and then deteriorated, declined, and fell, we find they all
had one thing in common. One of the significant forerunners of their
fall was their turning away from their God or gods. Without God, there
is no virtue, because there's no prompting of the conscience. Without
God, we're mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only
what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the
society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If
we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation
gone under."
-- Remarks at an Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast in Dallas, Texas, 23 August
1984