Justice Neil Gorsuch: ‘We’re Not a Nation Founded on a Common Religion or Heritage but Around Ideas’

EXCERPT:

GORSUCH: “Well, those three great ideas in the Declaration are perfect and it’s a journey to realize them and it has been throughout our history. But each generation has to recommit themselves to those ideas. You know, we’re not a nation founded on a common religion or heritage. We’re founded around ideas. And so, the torch passes to each new generation to carry on those ideas. And the sacrifice that the men and women during the revolution, we forget it was 8 long bloody years. And ordinary people, not just Ben Franklin and and Thomas Jefferson, but people like Mary Katharine Goddard and Emily Geiger, whose stories we tell in the book, help make those ideals possible for us.”