Show DO YOU WANT A GUARDIAN GUARDIAN if ay any part of our ur people want to be wards if they want to have guardi guardians ansi put over them if they want to be taken care of it if they want to be children patronized by the government why I 1 am sorry jorry because it will sap the manhood of america wrote the late president wilson in his book the new I freedom ree but I 1 don t believe they do I 1 believe they want to stand on the firm foundation of law and right and take care of themselves 1 I for my part dont want to belong to a nation I 1 believe beleve that I 1 do noti belong to a nation that needs to be taken care of by guardians in those words the war president who had bad a greater knowledge of world history than almost any man who has held the position of chiet chief executive accurately caught the true american spirit the spirit that set this nation off from alt others dedicated to th the ideas of freedom and democracy which had been subjugated with force and bloodshed in the old word it was the spirit that led to the sailing of the mayflower layf lower three hundred years ago to the revolutionary war and finally to the arduous development of the west by men who no wards and wangled only the right to work and save and make their own destinies that spirit is our american heritage and nothing the founders and the pioneers could have sent down to us through time could have equaled it in worth it is likewise the spirit that we must keep constanty constantly in mind as a guide to the future if we are to endure as ag a democracy in which liberty is always to be maintained and it in which opportunity is to be offered to all it all paternalistic endeavors no matter how wel weil and honestly meant are at variance with this spirit and long loner enough pursued they must inevitably result in the destruction of those institutions which are peculiarly american I 1 |