To Charlie Kirk, freedom was never license to do whatever one pleased, it was the space to do what one ought to do.
President Donald Trump posthumously awarded Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on what would have been Kirk’s 32nd birthday.
Kirk’s wife, Erika, accepted the award on her late husband’s behalf, speaking of his crusade for freedom.
“The very existence of the Presidential Medal of Freedom reminds us that the national interest of the United States has always been freedom,” Erika said. “Our Founders etched it into the preamble of our Constitution, and those words are not relics on parchment. They are a living covenant. The blessings of liberty are not man’s invention. They are God’s endowment.”
“[Charlie] believed that liberty was both a right and a responsibility. And he used to say that freedom is the ability to do what is right without fear. And that’s how he lived,” Erika said, adding her husband would say that “without God, freedom becomes chaos” and that freedom only endures “when anchored to truth.”
To Kirk, freedom was never license to do whatever one pleased, it was the space to do what one ought to do.
