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Freedom Documents, reminding us of our American heritage, its promise and future. 1776 The Declaration of Independence For a people to remain free and strong, they must remember, through the generations, how they got that way. These few documents represent some key moments in our history; more documents will be added.
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On the eve of the second World War, President Roosevelt spoke to the American people about how a free society ought treat its members and neighbors. He eloquently expressed four basic freedoms: Freedom of speech; Freedom of worship; Freedom from want; Freedom from fear. Sadly, that generation took another twenty years of constant struggle to begin to know those freedoms; they have never taken those rights for granted. See: Franklin Roosevelt's The "Four Freedoms".
Some still ask, here and abroad, why our nation is a super power, perhaps the last and most powerful ever. It is not of boast or vainglory, or a desire to conquer nations. This awesome and daunting charge was thrust upon us early on that first Sunday morning in December of 1941, by the Emperor of Japan. As President Roosevelt said, "We will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again." See: Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech. The generation after the second World War seemed to forget the struggle their parents fought to attain and preserve their freedoms. In 1979, President Carter expressed the sentiments of a foundering and lost nation; this was his famous "Crisis of Confidence" speech, more commonly known as the "Great Malaise" speach, even though those words never appeared in it. See: Jimmy Carter's Great Malaise.
"We are a nation that has a government — not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed." These words were spoken by President Reagan in 1981; and after enduring Carter's great malaise, this was what America wanted to hear. Reagan's was a message of freedom and independence and hope; Mr. Carter's speach was half again as long, yet he didn't find time for those things. See: Ronald Reagan's Inaugural.
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