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Welcome to the Freedom Center Next Generation |
It is a fire that burns in every heart. It is the spark that ignites greatness.
It is the soul of our nation. It is the destiny of every man. The lives of so many who have gone before us have been given so that we can know this great gift. So that we can become all God created us --each and every one of us -- to be. It is the greatest of gifts we have been given -- the gift of freedom! With this gift comes responsibility. The magic of America is its freedom. The keepers of that flame are you and me. Years ago during times of great social and economic crisis, the lovers of freedom in this country worked even harder to do their duty for the cause.
My father, John Hearne, was one of those who believed in the worth of every individual. And that if you worked hard and believed in yourself, you could reach your dream. He believed that it was the duty of every American to participate in their government and to understand and educate one’s self about different beliefs. Because he believed so strongly in the power of ideas and that ideas have consequences, he opened a bookstore called The Freedom Center. Manned by volunteers, this little shop of hope carried the works of great thinkers like Milton Friedman, Russell Kirk, Ludwig Von Mises, Frederick Hayek, William F. Buckley and so many others whose ideas would shape the policies that would transform a nation in the years that followed.
My brothers and I are beneficiaries of The Freedom Center. I like to think my father knew somehow that I would write this note to you all these many years later. My Dad knew, just like George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson, and Abe Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr., and Ronald Reagan and so many other giants of this country knew-- that this beautiful thing we call America is a partnership between the past, the present and the future- as Edmund Burke said –
“It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
And so we take up a new chapter in this great story. The Next Generation of the Freedom Center - lives, different in technology from my dad's bookstore, but not in spirit. Join our effort to renew, reshape and revive the rugged individualist in us all to make America a better place for all of us. |
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Loss of Freedom and the Growth of Government |
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Edmund Burke The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. ~Tacitus, Annals The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be. ~Lao-tzu Americans have the right to a judicial system they can trust. . . . Many judges disregard the safety, values, and freedom of law-abiding citizens. . . they make up laws [and] invent new rights. . . . 2000 Republican Platform.
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