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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND
THE AMERICAN WAY?
is dedicated to a world class
institution of higher education, Harding University,
where the principles of the Bible are indeed taught as
the principles of life.
The legal recognition and protection of free man's
natural right to acquire, hold, use, or get paid for the
use of private property is one of the essentials of any
economy that is striving to achieve the best possible life
for its people. As a stimulus for hard, sustained,
imaginative, constructive work, it has no equal. Any
society that tries to get along without it will never make
the best use of its factors of production.
Many Americans seem to assume that free
enterprise is a natural condition -- that it appears as
naturally as buds in springtime and that it will continue
to bloom forever. But the fact is that throughout most
of history, there has been little freedom of enterprise.
No great nation enjoyed a full measure of economic
freedom until it was nurtured here under the U.S.
Constitution.
At the bedrock of the purpose for the existence of
The Belden Center is the chief concern of man's
government to establish and protect the highest degree
of personal freedom possible within the framework of
law and order -- to make him a better producer, if his
government truly is one "...
ofthe people,
by
the people
and for the people....
"
Americans, according to their Constitution, are free
to dream, play, try, fail and try again. Freedom, of
course, is not the only thing required for economic
progress, but it is indispensable. Americans have
accepted it and have prospered beyond all other people.