"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."

"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. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again."
- California Gov. Ronald Reagan

inauguration speech (public ceremony)
January 5, 1967
Sacramento, California