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THE safety of our country depends upon the popular realization of the fact that the structure of freedom is produced exactly like any other great structure in America.
Many years ago where this hotel now stands, there was nothing but a vacant lot. Somebody came on to this vacant space with a pen, a pencil and a drawing board. He drew up certain specifications. He handed these over to the builders and eventually the build' ing resulted. That basic blueprint took certain things for granted. The blueprinters knew that two and two is four. They confidently relied upon the multiplication table and from that basic pattern of mathematical certain' ty reflected in the blueprint, the hotel came forth.
Now, the American Republic is no different. Many years ago the found' ing fathers, the architects of this socalled American dream, came upon what is now the United States and found it a vacant lot. Then and there they proceeded to draw a bill of sped' fications for the Republic that has sheltered us all ever since and has now revealed itself as a shining symbol of hope, not for Americans alone but for the entire world.
I want to fix your attention upon that blueprint. I want to plead with you this afternoon to put it into the great channel of publicity that you have created in newspapers, Radios, magazines, billboards. Give this blue print a few inches of that space now and then, because unless the public consciousness of this blueprint is re' vived, all of your advertising will eventually go for naught as the prr
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vate enterprise system is engulfed in socialistic statism.
WHAT was this blueprint for freedom that was drawn up by these founding architects in 1776? It was drawn with the first breath of the new life of this Republic in the Amer' ican Declaration of Independence. Here is the plan. Here is embodied the mathematics of American freedom. Here are the basic, primary colors that go to make up the presently col' orful panorama of American life. And here are the basic essentials without which America cannot endure in spite of all our work, desires and aspira' tions.
At the very outset of the great document the architects of America declared "We hold these truths." Truths! Here are not matters of opuv ion; here are matters of fact. "We hold these truths to be self-evident," the Founding Fathers said. Here is the "Two and two" of freedom.
Number one — we hold this truth to be self-evident, "That all men are created — " let's pause there a moment. Here is the number one postU' lation of official American certainty. Not a matter of opinion, not a matter of argument, but a matter of fact — there is a God. Under the first of the four cornerstones of this Republic, God's existence is stipulated as a mathematical certainty.
We now move on to the second cornerstone. We hold this truth to be self-evident, number two, "That all men are created equal." Here is indeed a truth to ponder over.
Misconceptions and misconstrue' tions of this tortured matter of human equality is at the root of all the dis