In a speech given in 1969 by Ronald Reagan, then governor of California, he said, “Is it possible that much of what frightens and disturbs us started with us? With a gradual and silent erosion of our moral code? Are we the lost generation? No government at any level and for any price can afford the police necessary to assure our safety and our freedom unless the overwhelming majority of us are guided by an inner personal code of morality.”  Unsurprisingly, Reagan spoke these words near the end of one of the most tumultuous times in our nation’s history.  It was a decade that saw the assassination of a President…