This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, The Good, The Bad, & The Hope We Have: A Treasury of Useful Quotations.
Our Founding Fathers created a new form of government that never existed before. It is a Constitutional republic called the American experiment in self-government. Ronald Reagan explained how it works. He said:
“Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: ‘We the People.’ ‘We the People’ tell the government what to do; it doesn’t tell us. ‘We the People’ are the driver; the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast.
“Almost all the world’s constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which ‘We the People’ tell the government what it is allowed to do. ‘We the People’ are free.”
The results of the 2024 election prove that the American experiment is still working. And that Thomas Jefferson was right when he said,
“Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.”
The American Revolution has never ended. It’s still going on in the hearts and minds of the American people. And we will never surrender our liberty and freedom.
