Your education at @Hillsdale has taught you not what to do, but what to be – and today, you will receive a diploma that has been minted in independence and tempered with truth.
The America that awaits your energies and ambitions is experiencing a new era of opportunity and optimism.
You are beginning your careers at a time of a growing American economy and a restored American stature at home and abroad. And faith in America is rising again!
You are beginning your careers at a time of a growing American economy and a restored American stature at home and abroad. And faith in America is rising again!
On the world stage, you’ve seen America embracing our role as leader of the free world – with action just this week regarding Iran, North Korea, and on Monday, America will lead the world again when we open our new Embassy in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel!
Here at home, businesses large and small are growing again – more than 3.1 million new jobs, unemployment at a 17-year low, and the best news of all for you new graduates today, there are more job openings across America than any time in the history of this country.
Faith in America is rising again because @POTUS Trump and our entire administration have been advancing the very principles that you learned here in the halls of @Hillsdale College.
We live in a time when traditional values, even religious conviction, are increasingly marginalized by a secular popular culture – a time when it's become acceptable, even fashionable, to malign religious belief. I still believe with all my heart that FAITH in America is rising.
The percentage of Americans who live out their religion on a weekly basis – by praying, going to church, and reading and believing in the Bible – has remained remarkably consistent over the decades, even as the population of the United States has grown by leaps and bounds.
Religion in America isn’t receding – just the opposite. Faith is gaining new life with every passing day.
Faith has always been the wellspring of hope for millions of Americans, and from our Founding, faith has been the foundation of our freedom, and religion essential to our republic.
I encourage you to take your deepest-held convictions into every facet of your life – and add your voices, and your values, to this new American awakening.
Your education in the liberal arts has empowered you to conserve the foundations of our freedom… and you are now uniquely suited – and I believe you are uniquely called – to renew the fabric of our national life.
The most heroic acts & greatest feats aren’t the stuff of headlines & fame. They’re actually the daily choices that you make & the habits you’ve already begun to form.
Ultimately, whether you renew America comes down to whether you live what you have learned at @Hillsdale.
Ultimately, whether you renew America comes down to whether you live what you have learned at @Hillsdale.
Congratulations to the @Hillsdale College Class of 2018.
Right after WE get done making this nation great again, I know YOUR generation will make America greater than ever before.
Right after WE get done making this nation great again, I know YOUR generation will make America greater than ever before.
