Ronald Reagan actually said...

John Ashbrook knew that the first duty of public life is to responsibly speak the truth—even if the moment's fashion is against that truth.

He warned against 'unbridled national power with a resultant loss of individual freedom and local autonomy.'

It was never quite possible to say of John Ashbrook that he was typical—even though he was very much one of a breed of Midwestern Congressme...

They shape the America we know today and are now molding the character of our country tomorrow.