Famous Speeches of American Independence - John F. Kennedy
" I wish to explain something tonight that so far has not been taken up in regard to the Great Angel who spoke to Washington with the Word " Union" on the forehead. That word " Union" means UNION WITH GOD and that Being came to anchor that long ago there, that into the consciousness of Washington and into the consciousness of the mental and feeling world of the people in this Nation then.
That was just the same as you stamp a name or a figure upon a piece of paper, that word UNION is the outer acknowledgment of this Nation's oneness with the Great God Presence, the "Mighty I AM". And it is the oneness of this Nation with the recognition of God as the head of this Nation that so far has been the strength of all that was accomplished constructively.
And while the people are turning without question to a deeper acknowledgment of God within your country to correct certain conditions yet, there must come the time when the people themselves will face that Being and hear from that Being's lips the Command for ONENESS with that "Mighty I AM Presence" that Guards the Heart of the World.
That is the uniting, the Oneness of the Inner and the outer and the outer must turn and enter in to the complete Oneness with Our Love if It is to be sustained on this Earth in the future."
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John F. Kennedy gave this early speech of his career as a candidate for Congress. In it he offers a robust defense of America’s founding. He lauds America’s religious and individualistic character and derides the theory that America’s founders were concerned purely with economic interests.
John F. Kennedy
'Some Elements of the American Character'
In his July 4 speech, Kennedy argues that: "The characteristics of the American people have ever been a deep sense of religion, a deep sense of idealism, a deep sense of patriotism, and a deep sense of individualism."
He begins by describing how this acute sense of religious grounding within the American character led to a new form of government, stating:"Our government was founded on the essential religious idea of integrity of the individual. It was this religious sense which inspired the authors of the Declaration of Independence. He concludes "that the motivating force of the American people has been their belief that they have always stood at the barricades by the side of God."
He contends that this religious fortitude is strongly allied to an American sense of individualism: "The right of the individual against the State has ever been one of our most cherished political principles."
"Conceived in Grecian thought, strengthened by Christian morality, and stamped indelibly into American political philosophy, the right of the individual against the State is the keystone of our Constitution. Each man is free. He is free in thought. He is free in expression. He is free in worship."
John F. Kennedy
'Some Elements of the American Character'
BACKGROUND
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States, the youngest man and the first Catholic elected to the office. He gave this, the first of many iconic speeches, in 1946 as a candidate for Congress from the 11th Congressional District of the state of Massachusetts. He was elected to the House of Representatives the following year, serving as a congressman until standing for the Senate in 1953.
HIS MOTIVATION
As a charismatic war-hero, part of a new generation but just commencing his political career at the tender age of 29, Kennedy sought to rekindle the hope in American values that had suffered at the hands of the sacrifices of the recent world war. "In recent years, the existence of this element in the American character has been challenged by those who seek to give an economic interpretation to American history. They seek to destroy our faith in our past so that they may guide our future. These cynics are wrong…"
THEME OF HIS SPEECHES
Kennedy constantly drew on the admirable character traits and unshakeable belief in God of the early patriots and Founding Fathers - as embodied within the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. Kennedy further espouses a political theory of the American founding that relies on God-given natural rights,
"The American Constitution has set down for all men to see the essentially Christian and American principle that there are certain rights held by every man which no government and no majority, however powerful, can deny."
KEY FACTS STATED IN HIS FOUR SPEECHES
Kennedy enumerates examples of how the deep belief in the Providence of God has uniquely inspired the American experiment of self-governance, quoting examples from the Constitution, and excerpts from George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Alex de Tocqueville.
"Our earliest legislation was inspired by this deep religious sense: "Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion."
Our first leader, Washington, was inspired by this deep religious sense: "Of all of the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports."
Lincoln was inspired by this deep religious sense: "That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
Our late, lamented President was inspired by this deep religious sense: "We shall win this war, and in victory we shall seek not vengeance, but the establishment of an international order in which the spirit of Christ shall rule the hearts of men and nations."
Thus we see that this nation has ever been inspired by essential religious ideas. The doctrine of slavery which challenged these ideas within our own country was destroyed. Today these basic religious ideas are challenged by atheism and materialism: at home in the cynical philosophy of many of our intellectuals, abroad in the doctrine of collectivism, which sets up the twin pillars of atheism and materialism as the official philosophical establishment of the State.
We have defeated them in the past; we will always defeat them.
How well, then, has de Tocqueville said: "You may talk of the people and their majesty, but where there is no respect for God can there be much for man? You may talk of the supremacy of the ballot, respect for order, denounce riot, secession – unless religion is the first link, all is vain."
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