Three, two, one, zero, all engine run.

There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely.

Without a heritage, every generation starts over.

To remind the current regime.

We the people tell the governor what it is allowed to do.

All the action to get back in their box and stay there.

Lift-off.

We have a lift-down.

From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains.

Thank you. This is Heritage Explains. It is that time of year.

As the days get shorter and shorter,

and the focus turns from work to home, we enter

that end of year frame of mind. It's the natural time to look back on the lessons of 2025

and to look forward to 2026 and beyond. From our earliest times, Americans have fully embraced

this introspective season.

In New England, in the early 1700s, it was extremely common for pastors to preach sermons

and newspapers to print articles advocating for a moral reset for the year.

A particular vice that comes up again and again year after year is swearing.

Colonial Bostonians seem to have been particularly aware of a need to clean up their language.

Benjamin Franklin published this quote in the 1755 edition of his poor Richard's almanac.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find

you a better man. Mark Twain in 1863 had his own usual satirical take on the observation

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