Borrowed: In his final speech as President, Ronald Reagan stated the following: “America represents something universal in the human spirit. I received a letter not long ago from a man who said, ‘You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France to live and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, and you won’t become a German or a Turk.’ But then he added, ‘Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.” Encapsulated in this letter is the fact that unique among nations, America wasn’t founded on race, ethnicity, religion, color, or creed. It was an idea, as described in the Declaration, that all men are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable rights …

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