Are you erroneously thinking that "freedom is an entitlement" or that the " world owes you something "? Are you erroneously looking for the government to take care of you and give you freedom?
President Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States, rejected entitlement thinking. He was quoted as saying: "Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."
The following four quotations are from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Our 35th President, President John Kennedy had non-entitlement perceptions for Americans. In one of the early drafts for his Inaugural Address, he challenged Americans with the following thought: "Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country".
The statement from the 18th century French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau is still relevant: "As soon as any man says of the affairs of state, What does it matter to me?, the state may be given up as lost."
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a Memorial Day address in 1884 stated: "It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return."
Guy Emerson wrote in The New Frontier: A Study of the American Liberal Spirit: "Men and women are born to put more into their country than they take out of it".
As we celebrate July 4th, let us not forget those who have lived and died to give us freedom. Let us also commit to taking care of our country.
Currently we have a government that is procreating entitlements with indifference to the eventual bankrupting of our country financially, psychologically and morally. Entitlements are destroying the fiber of our economy, the will to achieve and our democratic heritage.
As we celebrate July 4th, let us reconnect with our independent spirit and democratic heritage. Let us reject entitlements and those who want to foster entitlement policies rather than policies that encourage the free and independent.
Remember, WE LIVE IN THE COUNTRY AND UNDER THE GOVERNMENT CREATED BY OUR CHOICES!
Dr. Hal
Life and Mental Fitness Coach
Are you erroneously thinking that "freedom is an entitlement" or that the " world owes you something "? Are you erroneously looking for the government to take care of you and give you freedom?
President Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States, rejected entitlement thinking. He was quoted as saying: "Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."
The following four quotations are from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Our 35th President, President John Kennedy had non-entitlement perceptions for Americans. In one of the early drafts for his Inaugural Address, he challenged Americans with the following thought: "Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country".
The statement from the 18th century French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau is still relevant: "As soon as any man says of the affairs of state, What does it matter to me?, the state may be given up as lost."
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a Memorial Day address in 1884 stated: "It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return."
Guy Emerson wrote in The New Frontier: A Study of the American Liberal Spirit: "Men and women are born to put more into their country than they take out of it".
As we celebrate July 4th, let us not forget those who have lived and died to give us freedom. Let us also commit to taking care of our country.
Currently we have a government that is procreating entitlements with indifference to the eventual bankrupting of our country financially, psychologically and morally. Entitlements are destroying the fiber of our economy, the will to achieve and our democratic heritage.
As we celebrate July 4th, let us reconnect with our independent spirit and democratic heritage. Let us reject entitlements and those who want to foster entitlement policies rather than policies that encourage the free and independent.
Remember, WE LIVE IN THE COUNTRY AND UNDER THE GOVERNMENT CREATED BY OUR CHOICES!
Dr. Hal
Life and Mental Fitness Coach