Neil Gorsuch

And I think if you look back through our history, you're going to realize that what seems hard or unique in your own times, and I'm not denying the reality of those things,

You're going to find echoes of it, and you're going to learn how to deal with it when you study your history.

And you're going to see, you want to talk about suppressing people you disagree with.

Well, you know, John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Act, made it a crime to speak negatively about the president of the United States, jailed publishers who criticized him and called him fat and bald and querulous.

And I think it was all of those things.

So

We all face our own challenges, but I think you can take strength and find heroes to emulate when you bother to look through the pages of history.

First, I say to young kids like that, learn.

All right.

Before you criticize, before you say you know how the world should be changed, make sure you know what you're talking about.

OK, before you want to tear down that gate, make sure you know why the gate was put there in the first place, because maybe it's holding back a herd of buffalo.

All right.

But once you've educated yourself and you really do feel like, you know, something about what you're talking about.

Yes, remember what it was like back in 1776.

Not everybody did stand up.

Would you have had the bravery to be a patriot?

Right.

Would you have been one of the silent majority who just tried to stay out of it?

And aren't you glad some people did stand up?

And what a difference they made and what a difference you can make when you come to it with the kind of knowledge, thoughtfulness, deliberation and courage and a willingness to sacrifice.