; Whereas President John F. Kennedy said Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to effort, to sacrifice, and a willingness to live and to die in its defense ; Whereas President Ronald Reagan said Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man ; Whereas World War II demonstrated the fragility of democracy and its accompanying civilized life; Whereas British Prime Minister Winston Churchill observed that Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have ever been tried ; Whereas President George Washington said the United States must recognize the immense value of the national Union and work towards its preservation with jealous anxiety and wrote that the security of a free Constitution may be accomplished by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights ; Whereas President Thomas Jefferson wrote Educate and inform the whole mass of the people … . They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty ; and Whereas evidence of the diminution of strong support for democratic principles in recent years among citizens of the United States suggests the government of the United States must once more teach and educate the people by taking appropriate actions to highlight and emphasize the importance of democratic principles and their essential role in our freedoms and way of life: Now, therefore, be it