Quote of the Day, Oct. 15, 2009

"The president takes an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. You can’t preserve something you don’t revere. You can’t protect something you haven’t learned. You can’t defend what you don’t know. And as I indicated, you must understand the traditions of freedom, its meaning, the purpose of liberty so that you can hand it down to the next generation. Democracy isn’t – doesn’t have a permanent life expectancy.  It has to be preserved from one generation to the next." — Justice Anthony Kennedy, during C-SPAN interview, June 25, 2009