| America has awakened and found itself in a new day, which we must now seize. We have passed through a long, turbulent night of the American soul, and the light that pours in now shows us a world, and an America, that are not what we wish them to be. The policies of borrow and squander block our growth, blacken our reputation, and burden our people. We will no longer pare down our reserves, but instead prepare for such reverses as may come. America will lose no more cities to casual negligence and manifest incompetence. Where we were promised prosperity, we find perdition. Where we were promised rebuilding, we find wreckage. Where we were promised victory and valor, we find instead ruin and reaction. Where we were promised unity, we find instead usury. |




