Congratulations America!
History’s pioneering experiment, the notion of a government of and by a free people once again manifested mankind’s most noble endowment: Freedom of choice. With the ballot box as its instrument, America has validated the righteousness of its ideals.
World, take notice! Americans, one by one, made clear the high value they attach to a fundamentally human principle: To speak out, to give their opinion, to express their choice and to do so completely immune from fear of reprisal.
For most of us, the right to cast a free ballot is an inherent element of our nature. We don’t deliberate it, we simply exercise it. And perhaps we lose appreciation for the genuine magnitude of it. It is easy to forget that brave men and women have made great sacrifices in order that this be preserved. Some of us have forgotten that freedom has a price and often the price has been high.
America’s liberties and the freedom of her citizens were not cheaply gotten. Nor will they be cheaply preserved. We must never forget what it has taken to achieve our freedom and we must always stand ready to do whatever is necessary to eternally preserve it.
Ours is the world’s best example. May it never perish.
