Graduates: Be True Patriots
What matters is how you respond when the founding values are tested.
The 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.