America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great (26 page)
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Authors: M. D. Ben Carson
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HAPTER
2: W
HO
A
RE
“W
E THE
P
EOPLE
”?
1
. See 2 Samuel 2:4, 1 Chronicles 29:22, 2 Chronicles 10:16, and Exodus 19:8.
2
. Colin Rhys Lovell,
English Constitutional and Legal History
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1962), 3 – 50.
3
. James MacGregor Burns,
The Vineyard of Liberty
(New York: Knopf, 1982), 33.
4
. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-politics/, section 3, chart under subhead “Supplement: Political Naturalism.”
5
.
Federalist Papers
, no. 10, 81.
6
.
Federalist Papers
, no. 39, 241.
7
.
Federalist Papers
, no. 51, February 8, 1788.
8
. William J. Federer,
America’s God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations
(St. Louis: Amerisearch, 2000), 458.
9
. Federer,
America’s God and Country
, 453.
10
. Kenneth C. Davis,
Don’t Know Much about History
(New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 118 – 19.
11
. Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington (January 16, 1787); see www.wideworldofquotes.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson-quotes.html.
12
. Letter to John Jay (August 15, 1786); see www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/george-washington-quotes-9.html.
13
. See www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,677214,00.html; www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article28957.html; http://economicsnewspaper.com/policy/german/portugal-ireland-belgium-italy-juncker-fears-contagion–35019.html; www.taipanpublishinggroup.com/tpg/taipan-daily/taipan-daily–062411.html?sub=TD&o=385937&s=389028&u=48412125&l=275791&g=198&r=Milo.
14
. Matthew Spalding, ed.,
The Founders’ Almanac
(Washington, DC: Heritage Foundation, 2008), 203. Excerpted from a letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816.
15
.
Notes on the State of Virginia
, Query XIV, 1781.
HAPTER
3: A
RE
W
E A
J
UDEO
-C
HRISTIAN
N
ATION OR
N
OT
?
1
. Peter Lillback with Jerry Newcombe,
George Washington’s Sacred Fire
(Bryn Mawr, Penn.: Providence Forum Press, 2006), 485 – 86.
2
. Federer,
America’s God and Country
, 635.
3
. Federer,
America’s God and Country
, 654. National Day of Thanksgiving Proclamation, October 3, 1789.
4
. www.petahtikvah.com/Articles/salomon.htm.
5
. www.jewishworldreview.com/jewish/salomon.asp.
6
. nationaldayofprayer.org/about/history/.
7
. www.christiannewswire.com/news/4387713640.html.
8
. Federer,
America’s God and Country
, 248 – 49.
9
. Federer,
America’s God and Country:
George Washington, 634; John Adams, 4; Alexander Hamilton, 273; Daniel Webster, 668; Thomas Paine, 489; John Locke, 397; John Madison, 409.
10
. texaslegislativeupdate.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/liberty-institute-arguing-candy-cane-case-implications-for-first-amendment-rights-of–41-million-school-children-and-parents/.
11
. www.proconstitution.com/under_god/.
HAPTER
4: A D
IFFERENT
S
CHOOL OF
T
HOUGHT
1
. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11601692.
2
. education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1878/Compulsory-School-Attendance.html, under subheading “Development of Compulsory School Attendance Philosophy and Laws,” paragraph 3.
3
. education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1878/Compulsory-School-Attendance.html, under subheading “Development of Compulsory School Attendance Philosophy and Laws,” paragraph 7.
4
. Education of slaves was forbidden in 1740. See www.campaignforeducationusa.org/us-public-education-timeline and www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/education/docs1.html.
5
. Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
. http://books.google.com/books, 337.
6
. Federer,
America’s God and Country
, 206 (source quote p. 746).
7
. Federer,
America’s God and Country
, 680.
8
. Spalding,
The Founders’ Almanac
, 150. Excerpted from a letter to WT Barry, dated August 4, 1822.
9
. Ibid., 180. James Madison from
The Federalist Papers
number 10, November 23, 1787.
HAPTER
5: C
APITALISM
: I
TS
P
ROS AND
C
ONS
1
. www.inventions.org/culture/african/matzeliger.html.
2
. www.horatioalger.com/index.cfm.
3
. www.usatoday.com/life/people/obit/2010–03–30-stand-and-deliver-teacher_N.htm.
4
. Matthew 25:14 – 30; Luke 19:12 – 28.
5
. www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25percent3A14–30&version=NIV, “A talent was worth about twenty years’ worth of a day laborer’s wages.”
6
. www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h–2062.
7
. Spalding,
The Founders’ Almanac
, 158.
8
. www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/education/22dropout.html; www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23889321/ns/us_news-education/t/cities-cited-low-high-school-graduation-rates/; www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006–06–20-dropout-rates_x.htm; www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2010/0610/Graduation-rate-for-US-high-schoolers-falls-for-second-straight-year.
HAPTER
6: S
OCIALISM
: W
HOSE
P
OT OF
S
OUP
I
S IT
?
1
. money.cnn.com/2011/04/19/news/economy/ceo_pay/index.htm.
2
. Davis,
Don’t Know Much about History
, 351.
3
. freemasonry.bcy.ca/history/boston_tea_party.html, under subheading “December 16.”
4
. The following quotes can be found at http://conservativecolloquium.wordpress.com/2007/11/24/founding-fathers-on-charity-wealth-redistribution-and-federal-govt/.
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
“A wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”
Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801
“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816
“God helps those who help themselves.”
“The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.”
“There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means — either may do — the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.”
“He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.”
Benjamin Franklin
“It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.”
“In the main it will be found that a power over a man’s support (salary) is a power over his will.”
Alexander Hamilton
“The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.”
“The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.”
James Madison
“No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.”
John Jay
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.”
John Adams from
A Defense of the
Constitutions of Government of the
United States of America,
1787
5
. www.epi.org/publications/entry/briefingpapers_bp143/.
6
. www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1246489837.pdf; http://www.thirdreport.com/third-report.asp?storyid=365; http://www.naked-capitalism.com/2009/04/socialism-gaining-ground-in-america.html; http://socialismdoesntwork.com/why-socialism-doesnt-work/; http://www.preservearticles.com/201102073940/merits-and-demerits-of-socialism.html.
HAPTER
7: W
HAT
I
S A
M
ORAL
N
ATION
?
1
. www.cic.gc.ca/english/work/index.asp.
2
. Remini,
A Short History of the United States
, 274 – 81.
3
. Ibid., 326 – 31.
4
. Federer,
America’s God and Country
, 240.
5
. John R. Howe Jr.,
The Changing Political Thought of John Adams
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1966), 189.
6
. ethicsalarms.com/2011/01/26/where-we-miss-morality-the-unmarried-mothers-disaster/; http://www.ocpathink.org/articles/354.
7
. www.wftv.com/news/25813000/detail.html.
8
. www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2010/07/21/the-total-us-debt-to-gdp-ratio-is-now-worse-than-in-the-great-depression/; http://useconomy.about.com/od/fiscalpolicy/p/US_Debt.htm; www.reuters.com/article/2010/06/08/usa-treasury-debt-idUSN088462520100608.
9
. For data on the United States’s historical debt, see www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt.htm.
10
. freemencapitalist.com/founding-fathers/thomas-jefferson-biography/thomas-jefferson-quotes/, under subheading “Thomas Jefferson Quotes on Government Waste/Debt.”
11
. articles.cnn.com/2009–01–16/world/zimbawe.currency_1_zimbabwe-dollar-south-african-rand-dollar-note?_s=PM:WORLD.
HAPTER
8: L
EARNING FROM
O
UR
M
ISTAKES
1
. See oxforddictionaries.com/definition/Motown). Motown: “The first black-owned record company in the US … Motown was founded in Detroit in 1959 by Berry Gordy, and was important in popularizing soul music, producing artists such as the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye.” Motown was an “informal name for Detroit”; the term is “a shortening of
Motor Town
, by association with the car manufacturing industry of Detroit.”
2
. www.blackinventor.com/.
3
. Albert Henry Smyth, ed.,
The Writings of Benjamin Franklin
(New York: Macmillan, 1905 – 07), 3:135.
4
. William V. Wells,
The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams
, 3 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1865), 1:154.
5
. www.working-minds.com/TJquotes.htm, {Issue #54}.
6
. Ibid., {Issue #59}.
7
. www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/democracy-will-cease-to-exist-quotation.
8
. www.constitution.org/je/je4_cong_deb_12.htm.
9
. Spalding,
The Founders’ Almanac
, 188.
10
. lifestrategies.thingseternal.com/topics/foundersoneducation.html; www.nccs.net/newsletter/apr99nl.html.
11
. www.rutgers.edu/guides/glo-sov.html; www.heritage.org/Research/Lecture/Who-Lost-Russia; http://reasonovermight.blogspot.com/2005/06/cubas-decline-by-numbers.html; future.state.gov/when/timeline/1969_detente/fall_of_communism.html.
HAPTER
9: A
MERICA’S
R
OLE IN A
W
ORLD AT
W
AR
1
. library.uncg.edu/dp/wv/collection.aspx?col=887
2
. www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm, paragraph 5.
HAPTER
10: I
S
H
EALTH
C
ARE A
R
IGHT
?
1
. Fifty-two million in 2010: www.bloomberg.com/news/2011–03–16/americans-without-health-insurance-rose-to–52-million-on-job-loss-expense.html.
2
. For more information, see Larry Schweikart,
The Entrepreneurial Adventure: A History of Business in the United States
(Ft. Worth, Tex.: Harcourt, 2000). See also www.american.com/archive/2009/april–2009/Success-on-the-Side.
HAPTER
13: W
HAT’S
G
OOD
A
BOUT
A
MERICA
?
1
. From Dave Thomas’s biography available on Wendys.com.
HAPTER
14: W
HAT
D
O
W
E
B
ELIEVE AND IN
W
HOM
D
O
W
E
T
RUST
?