In a recent speech at Washington and Lee University, Justice Thomas states…
Americans today are self-indulgent and don’t make the sacrifices that their parents and grandparents did, and the nation’s leaders don’t ask people to act for the higher good, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Monday at a Virginia college in a rare public speech.
and he went on to say….
He quoted President Kennedy’s famous, “Ask not what your country can do for you” speech, but said Americans today are more likely to say, “Ask not what you can do for yourselves or your country but what your country can do for you.”
I believe Justice Thomas hits the bulls eye. Unfortunately, there are very few political leaders that have the moral authority to “ask people to act for the higher good”. The present Speaker of the House most definitely does not . Pathetic.
