Dedicated to that generation of resolute Americans we call the Founding Fathers
They created the first free people to survive as a nation in modern times.They wrote a new kind of Constitution, which is now the oldest in existence.They built a new kind of commonwealth designed as a model for the whole human race.They believed it was thoroughly possible to create a new kind of civilization, providing freedom, equality and justice for all.They envisioned a vast commonwealth of freedom which would encompass all North America, and accommodate, as John Adams said, “two to three hundred million freemen.”They created an expansive new cultural climate that gave eagle’s wings to the human spirit.They encouraged exploration and technology to reveal the secrets of the universe.They built a free-enterprise culture to promote millions of jobs and unprecedented prosperity.They invented, for the world as well as themselves, a whole new formula for happiness and success.They offered the human race a potential future filled with the ultimate hope of the human heart – a world of universal freedom, universal prosperity, and universal peace.
"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."
........Abraham Lincoln
A new version of Thomas Paine's original plea to the disjointed American colonies, Common Sense for the Present, summarizes our core beliefs.
We focus on three unifying core values: ·Fiscal responsibility ·Limited government ·Free markets
These values derive from our shared heritage and a belief in a free person who exercises personal responsibility. We believe these values which defined the foundation of America are an extension of natural rights, and therefore necessary in upholding what our Declaration of Independence calls: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Pursuit of these rights is not possible without preservation of those 3 core values.
To this end, our founders shed tyranny and formed a Republic under a Constitution which was designed to protect those core values.
In short - natural rights cannot be protected unless upholding these core values. We believe these rights and values to be the core of conservatism.
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
