Today, American patriots demonstrate
in the capital of the United States of America. Individuals gathered
in the cause of freedom are demanding that the nation founded on
individual rights refuse to capitulate against an evil regime that
recognizes no human rights.
It is no accident that the movement that considers the citizen a
sovereign, that seeks to minimize the burden of government upon the
citizen, leads in this struggle. It is no accident that this celebration of the individual human being has its roots in a
philosophical union of individual liberty, individual prosperity, and
individual morality.
It is no accident that statists who exploit the achievement of the
free market, of individual accomplishment, in order to enslave those
who produce, would support those who despise freedom and
individualism. If anything, the free world has learned a bitter
lesson about the importance of limiting government, of maintaining a
government of laws, legislated with restraint by the people, through
their representatives, and not a government of men.
Today, we urge the United States to deny the mullahs of Iran
access to two awesome powers. One is the nuclear bomb, developed to
defeat powers of darkness from enslaving the world seventy years ago.
The other is financial power, $150 billion in monetary assets.
Money, the symbol of freedom and trust among human beings to trade
value for value, can be used, and has been used, to buy the means of
killing vast numbers of innocents.
A guiding light for liberty, Adam Smith, laid the foundation of
free market economic theory in "The Wealth of Nations." He formalized the truth that rational
self-interest and competition can lead to economic prosperity.
Freedom unleashed from tyranny is the greatest wonder of the world
and the free market has raised more people from
poverty than any other economic system in history.
Yet Adam Smith also gave us "The Theory of Moral Sentiments,"
wherein he taught that man can form moral judgments in spite his
natural inclinations towards self-interest. Smith presented a theory
of sympathy, in which the act of observing others makes people aware
of themselves and the morality of their own behavior.
Combine the two works and you see the effects on American founder
John Adams who stated, "Our Constitution was made only
for a moral and religious people. It is wholly
inadequate to the government of any other." With freedom,
even within the framework of the greatest code of self-government in
history, comes responsibility. Freedom is the unleashed power of
human intelligence and initiative, and yet statists and other tyrants
would take the fruits of that freedom and enslave their producers.
So, today we join with our brothers in Washington, D.C., and with millions around the world - who look to the United States for economic, strategic, and moral leadership - to take a
stand against tyrants of all types, but especially against those who
dehumanize their own people and worship a cult of death, those who
would use our own economic tools and weapons to enslave us.
