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Enterprise -- It's Another Word for America
The blessings in private property ·are built into
American capitalism. · To paraphrase Shakespeare,
private prop·erty used for production is thrice blest -- it
blesseth those who are the owners, those who make
their living using it and those of the general public who,
as customers, benefit from the goods and services
produced. Payments for the use of existing tools,
profits, provide money that is used to create additional
tools.
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 natural resource, manpower, and
tools.
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.
We know that the chief concern of man's
government should be 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
'~
..
of the
people,
by
the people and for the people.
"
Americans,
according to their Constitution, are free to dream, play,
try, fail and try again.
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