Governor Ronald Reagan, in his 1967 inaugural address, famously remarked, "Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction."
Reagan today might have expanded on his theme by declaring that civilization itself is both fragile and can lost by a generation that recklessly spends its inheritance while neither appreciating nor replenishing it—if not ridiculing those who sacrificed so much to provide it.
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