Graduates: Be True Patriots
What matters is how you respond when the founding values are tested.
Let patriotism ring.
Photographer: William Thomas Cain/Getty ImagesThe following is an adaptation of an address to Villanova University’s class of 2017.
In preparing for today, I was reminded that this beautiful campus lies halfway between two of the most important sites in American history: Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were debated and adopted, and Valley Forge, where George Washington’s troops spent a long winter during the Revolutionary War.