Recently, Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, passed away at age 80.

His passing was duly eulogized by the Reagan Foundation and the Young America's Foundation at the Reagan Ranch.

Both noted that Michael, whom I had the privilege to know, devoted his life to writing and speaking about the American principles that so defined his father.

At this time of such confusion and division, there couldn't be a better moment to remind all of us what America is about, as understood by President Reagan.

And there is no better source from which to quote Reagan than what I believe was his greatest speech, and perhaps one of the greatest in America's history. It is his speech delivered March 8, 1983, to the National Association of Evangelicals, known as the "evil empire" speech, because it was how he described the Soviet Union on that day.

A couple takes from that........

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