Whatever Happened To Truth, Justice & the American Way

Could Happen Here, Or Could

It?

demanding more, we stole from our children by

providing insufficient capital for economic growth. This

has undoubtedly been a sure way to discourage

ancestor worship.

At this time, can we be good students and learn

from history? Thomas Jefferson was cautiously

optimistic for us:

predid future happiness for

Americans if they can prevent the government from

wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of

taking care of them.

Have we forgotten that it was Jefferson who also

wrote,

"Ifa nation values anything more than freedom,

it will lose its freedom

and the irony ofit is that if it is

comfort or money that it values more than freedom, it

will lose the comfort and the money too.

Today, as ever, the key to individual freedom is the

type of government under which man lives. The chief

concern of good government -- one that stimulates the

productivity needed for a high standard of living -- is to

establish and protect the highest degree of personal

freedom possible within the framework of the law. A

government that does not guarantee this freedom

severely retards the improvement of the material

welfare of its people.

Some thoughtful observers are deeply concerned

that the late 20th century may not mark another

opportunity to observe the anniversary of the American

Constitution, but rather the end of the age · of the

American incentive system.

we· want it to be the

former, we had better step up our efforts to understand

and preserve the documents which are the basis for the

most productive economic system in the history of man.