To preserve our freedom, we as a nation must continue to hold before the American people the spiritual foundation of our Country. We must reaffirm our faith in Almighty God and constantly rekindle that spirit of humble reliance on Divine Guidance which inspired the Founders of our Country. It behooves us as a Nation to arm our people in time of peril with the ageless weapons of moral and spiritual might and to uphold and preserve, unimpaired, the spiritual heritage of America. We are and must be “One Nation under God”.
Looking to one of the greatest documents ever written, our Declaration of Independence, we witness its seminal opening passage “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” Grounded in reason, “self-evident” truths invoke the long tradition of natural law, which holds that there is a “higher law” of right and wrong from which to derive human law and against which to criticize that law at any time. It is not political will, but moral reasoning, accessible to all that is the foundation of our political system. “One Nation under God”.
But if reason is the foundation of the Founders’ vision, the method by which we justify our political order, liberty is our aim. Thus the cardinal moral truths are these:
“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.” “One Nation under God”.