President s it established and the legacies that left. There is a strong case to be made that november 11, the day that a battered square rigor called the mayflower made safe harbor in a place near what is today in massachusetts. That day should be one of the greatest moments in our national theory, comparable to fourth of july, independence day, and september 17, constitution day. But let me qualify that statement a little bit. As ourk of the pilgrims forebears and we are right to do so but it is important to remember they and the other new puritans that were selling new england at the time did not imagine they were settling establishing the United States of america. Nothing could have been further from their minds. They were doing something entirely different. They were about the business of establishing a place where they could enjoy a pure and uncorrupted church. The early settlers of virginia were motivated by material considerations they wanted, what the spaniards wanted from the
We think of the pilgrims as our forbearers and we have a right to do so but it is important to remember they and the other new englanders settling at the time did not imagine they were settling United States of america. Nothing could have been further from their minds. They were doing something entirely different. They were about the business of establishing a place where they could enjoy a pure and uncorrupted church. The settlers of virginia were motivated by material considerations, gold, wealth, material wealth. The settlers of new england were driven by religious zeal. Most of them were puritans, men and women of a company spent who believed the church of england had not gone far enough to purge itself of its corrupt aspects and would despair of a cleansing renewal ever coming in their lifetimes, and hence their decision to emigrate to the new beginning. In particular were not only calvinists but separatists, meaning they had separated themselves from the aurch of england as they
Values. When one thinks about the culture that the shared values that hold twitter together, that make it what it is, i would imagine that when you are making a decision about how aggressively to pursue an issue like that, it does come back to very fundamental values. So can you talk a little bit about how that particular decision about transparency connects to the values of the firm . At the end of the day some of this is not all that complicated. We end up running the company in more or less some kind of golden rule type of way which is as we conceive of and implement these policies, what we as users want to exist in a product that has these policies. And by and large thats what were rying to do. Fortheres an environment surrounding us that is unfavorable we try to go about and change those things. Now i would say some of these types of decisions, including the decision to sue our own oe government are internally pretty uncontroversial because i would say as a leader shship [ muted t
Possible. In the islamic world, and ultimately in the authoritarian powers, that is in russia and in china. My i think what reagan would have argued is, look, we can get along or we can manage a piece with these countries, but well never achieve any lasting accomplishments or any lasting developments together with those countries unless theres some narrowing of these idealogical differences. For example, in some islamic countries, its not possible to have an Opposition Party because you cant be second ewe list. You must, in fact, adhere to the islamic law. Which is identified with the government and with the state. Individualism in asian societies is such a different concept as it is in western societies, that is individuals have the right to question authorities, Even Authority of their own parents and their own family. We believe that in the west. We educate our children to think for themselves. Sometimes that means they do disagree with their parents as well as with others. So we ne
There. Yeah, that misinformation exists, but it can get put back in its place even better and more quickly. Thanks for that. Congress is in recess for the summer district work period. All this week we are bringing you American History tv in primetime on cspan3. Tonight, a look at the major speeches of our nations 40th president , Ronald Reagan. Up next on American History tv, a Panel Discussion from Regent University Ronald Reagan symposium. Democratic revolution, challenges to fostering global freedom. It focuses on the speeches that defined president reagans administration, including what became known as the evil empire speech and his 1987 west berlin Mchale Gorbachev to tear down this wall. This is an hour 10 minutes. Good morning. Welcome. Im delighted you chose to join us for the 10th annual Ronald Reagan similar pose pose yum on this cold winter morning. I serve as dean as here. I would like to introduce one of our Senior Leaders to greet you at this time and kick off this confer