Reagan Speech Freedom Is Never More Than
Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Freedom is a fragile thing, and it's never more than one generation away from extinction.
It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not our 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. Let us resolve that future generations will know a new birth of freedom and that this land that Reverend King loved so well and gave so much to will continue to shine with the brilliant hope of all mankind. On , Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as governor of California, marking the true beginning of the Reagan Revolution.
00:00 Freedom is never more than one generation... Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were ... But freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream.
Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on Earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price. 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. Contemporary quote repositories and Reagan-era sources routinely attribute the commonly paraphrased line we are never more than one generation away from losing our freedoms to Reagan, though the precise phrasing most often cited is freedomnever more than one generation away from extinction [4] [5].
