Marshall Sanford: “Mr. Speaker, if we stop and think about it, our Founding Fathers built our country on a simple concept called freedom.…”

“Mr. Speaker, if we stop and think about it, our Founding Fathers built our country on a simple concept called freedom. Freedom is the ingredient that they willed for every human soul. Freedom is not something that Nelson Mandela saw for almost 30 years of his life, yet after getting out of jail, rather than constructing a life built around bitterness or built around revenge, he constructed a life built around freedom, around the simple idea of one man, one vote, around the idea of democracy. For that he deserves both our praise and this Congressional Medal of Honor.”