Commencement Address, Eureka College, 1957 – Things Haven’t Changed Much In 54 Years

“There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don’t quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.” Ronald Reagan

Drink one for me,

Woody

 

 

~ by Frank Wood on 8 July 2011.