Freedom, it has been said, makes people selfish
Freedom, it has been said, makes people selfish and materialistic, but Americans are one of the most religious peoples on Earth. Because they know that liberty, just as life itself, is not earned but a gift from God, they seek to share that gift with the world. "Reason and experience," said George Washington in his farewell address, "both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. And it is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government."Read the excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s Address at Moscow State University.
Check all that apply. The underlined words in this excerpt are
an example of procatalepsis.
an example of allusion.
used by Reagan to acknowledge an opposing view.
included by Reagan to discourage increased freedom.
followed by a counterargument proving Reagan’s point.