The good Lord raised this mighty Republic to be a home for the brave and to
flourish as the land of the free-not to stagnate in the swampland of
collectivism

Now, my fellow Americans, the tide has been running against freedom.
Our people have followed false prophets. We must, and we shall, return to
proven ways .........freedom - balanced so that liberty lacking order will
not become the slavery of the prison cell; balanced so that liberty lacking
order will not become the license of the mob and of the jungle.

We have lost the brisk pace of diversity and the genius of individual
creativity. We are plodding at a pace set by centralized planning, red tape,
rules without responsibility, and regimentation without recourse.

Rather than useful jobs in our country, people have been offered
bureaucratic "make work," rather than moral leadership, they have been given
bread and circuses, spectacles, and, yes, they have even been given scandals

there is a virtual despair among the many who look beyond material
success for the inner meaning of their lives.

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what
they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own
version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones
who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt,
and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken
course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality,
rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty
and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it
has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to
despotism.