Blessing of Freedom

Prosperity did not make the United States free. Freedom made the United States prosperous. The freedom to risk is the freedom to fail, but also to succeed in creating wealth unmatched and more fairly and broadly distributed than anywhere else in human history. America expunged slavery over a century and a half ago and since that time has afforded opportunity across the board for those native born and immigrants alike. Nowhere else can someone come from abroad, open an ethnic eatery or a motel and have children that graduate from Ivy League schools and go on to be at the top of their professions. Only the opportunity that liberty creates enables the prosperity we enjoy today. I hope you remember the blessing of liberty today and have a happy Indepence Day.