President Ronald Reagan 1988 State of the Union

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I vividly remember something the President said that night: "We the People" make this country different from all other nations. We the people tell the government what it can do, not the other way around.

I am of the opinion that our current crop of leaders have gotten the idea that this country's founding document no longer applies, and that "We the People" is a quaint thing of the past, as the document itself.

The Government wants to tell us what to do all too often without remembering that their power comes from the people- not from themselves.  Our rights are not granted by an act of Congress- but by God.

I believe that.  I hope enough people in this country still believe that so that we don't go down the wrong road.