Neil Gorsuch

You have to remember, like most of the men who signed the declaration said,

gave their fortunes to the revolution.

They died poorer for the cause.

They gave it everything they had.

We tell the story, for example,

one of the founders from Virginia, Thomas Nelson, who was head of the militia at Yorktown.

And when he saw that the British were using his home as their headquarters, he didn't hesitate to order his men to open fire on it.

And having given so much to the revolutionary cause, he died so poor.

that they buried his body in a hidden grave so his creditors couldn't dig it up and hold it as collateral for payment.

And when he died, he was asked whether he was bitter about his experiences, and he said he'd do it all over again.

And I do think, yes, you need to stand up and be counted, but make sure you do it for the right reasons and with full knowledge of what you're involved in.

Absolutely.

You know, people people ask me all the time, are you an optimist or a pessimist?

And I struggle with that.

But at the end of the day, at the end of the day, I'm an optimist.

I just spent yesterday at the Reagan Library talking to kids.

It was fantastic.

It's amazing.

And I remember his optimism for the country, right?

America's days were ahead of us, he said, in 1980.