U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaks in Fulton on Thursday

Updated at 4:42 – Former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders brought his messages of free college tuition and universal health care to mid-Missouri.

Delivering the 58th annual Green Foundation Lecture at Westminster College on Thursday, he spoke in the shadows of Sir Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan and other legendary leaders.

Sanders was greeted by a packed house at Champ Auditorium and spoke on all the familiar topics he became known for on the campaign trail.

He also called for the Iran deal to be maintained and for stiffer sanctions against North Korea.

Speaking on his other anxieties, Sanders said, “A great concern that I have is that many in our country are losing faith in our common future and in our democratic values.”

Westminster College also awarded the longest serving Independent senator in American history an honorary degree of doctor of political science.

Sanders has served 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and is now in the fifth year of his second term in the U.S. Senate.

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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders is scheduled to speak at Westminster College in Fulton on Thursday morning.

Sanders will be delivering the 58th Annual Green Foundation Lecture.

The Green Foundation Lecture was established in 1936 as a memorial to John Findley Green, a St. Louis attorney who graduated from Westminster in 1884.

Westminster staff said the lectures are designed to promote understanding of economic and social problems of international concern delivered by a “person of international reputation.”

Sanders is expected to speak on his vision of a “progressive American foreign policy.”

The event will take place in Champ Auditorium starting at 11 a.m. You can watch it live here.