WATCH Trey Gowdy’s Inspiring and Powerful Message to the Next Generation of Conservatives

U.S. Congressman Trey Gowdy’s Convocation speech at Liberty University last year is worth a viewing during these dark political times.

YouTube channel “Rowdy Gowdy” has taken a powerful 4 minutes (below) from the end of the talk in which the Congressman encourages the graduates with a little known story of heroism and self-sacrifice aptly titled: “The Virtues of Life.”

Gowdy encourages the students not to wait for somebody to save them but to be the agents of change for the better in their families, schools, cities, and government.

He follows up by telling the powerful story of Arland Dean Williams Jr., who in 1982 was a passenger on board Air Florida Flight 90 when it crashed into the icy waters of the Potomac river in Washington D.C. Instead of saving himself when the rescue chopper let down a rope latter, Arland stayed in the water helping one person after another be lifted out individually until he finally succumbed to fatigue and drowned.

Gowdy closes with the following powerful lines:

“You are the messenger that is going to change your world. I am not asking you to be like Ronald Reagan or Abraham Lincoln. I am asking you to live a quiet life of conviction and virtue and actually live out what you profess to believe. And if you can do that, you will be a leader, you will be persuasive, and your generation will be the one that gets our country back on the right path.”

Gowdy’s full “Pin Drop” speech, below: