“Not so, brothers and friends, — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds… A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar”, Harvard University, 1837
By strict definition, a Creator creates purposefully. If your HIGHEST POWER is a CREATOR, then you have been created for a PURPOSE, and you have a DESTINY. To achieve your DESTINY, and to be accountable to your CREATOR, you need to be FREE.
Therefore, the purpose of GOVERNMENT is to protect you and your unalienable individual rights so that you can accomplish your PURPOSE, and reach your DESTINY, whatever you learn that it is, right or wrong.
In other words…..
“We hold these TRUTHS to be SELF-EVIDENT, that all men are created equal, that they are ENDOWED by their CREATOR with certain UNALIENABLE Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
To be sufficiently free to reach our individual destiny implies certain ideas….
- Our GOVERNMENT is to PROTECT us from force and violence, so we can each freely determine our purpose in life, and strive to reach our destiny. Govenment is not to take away our success, or protect us from our own mistakes and failures. People must do that by choice.
- Our GOVERNMENT is to be SERVANT of the PEOPLE.
- Our GOVERNMENT is to be very LIMITED in POWER, and is not justified to economically or socially engineer us, or create entitlement, or educate our children, or exist in many areas that it now exists in. These issues are the responsibilities of us as individuals, and of communities of individuals….
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
Ben Franklin
- In America, it is our UNALIENABLE RIGHT to keep and use the “fruits of our labor” for this creates our liberty, and enables the pursuit of our destiny, our happiness…..
- Our right to keep the fruits of our labor also UNALIENABLY MEANS we individually must learn to be a moral society, meaning…
….. we use these fruits wisely and responsibly, as well as help the widows, the orphans, and those down on their luck, for we are accountable to our Creator, and each life is precious.
For more information about “truths” and the “self-evident” justification and basis of each of these statements, go to…
About Tier 1 Institute (Note Quotes Below)
Quotes to Ruminate About
“Liberty is not the means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.”
Lord Acton, Lecture, 1877
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” (TARP, Clunkers, Health Care, Stimulus, Green Jobs, much more)
Rahm Emanuel, Interview, 2008
“Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
William Pitt, English PM, Speech in House of Commons, 1783
“Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov”, 1881
“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”
D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
“Not so, brothers and friends, — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds… A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar”, Harvard University, 1837
