The Cornerstone of American Prosperity: Freedom Rooted in Faith
America did not begin with a government—it began with a conviction. A bold, world-shaping conviction that freedom is sacred because it is given by God, not granted by government. Our earliest settlers, imperfect but resolute, crossed an ocean with little more than courage and a Bible, believing that the Creator of the universe had endowed every person with dignity and the right to live, speak, and worship without fear.
That conviction became the spark of the American experiment. Religious liberty wasn’t added later—it was the fire at the center. In church pews, town squares, and frontier meetinghouses, a powerful truth took root: a nation can only rise when its people are free to seek God. By the time Jefferson wrote that our rights are “endowed by their Creator,” he wasn’t proposing an idea—he was naming the heartbeat of a people already living it.
Faith didn’t just inspire Americans; it built America. It shaped citizens who valued character over control and responsibility over entitlement. It fueled the movements that ended slavery, advanced civil rights, and established the world’s most generous humanitarian tradition. Our prosperity is not luck. It is the fruit of moral self-government—and moral self-government grows only where the soul is free.
That’s why religious liberty remains the cornerstone of our national strength. When conscience is free, greatness is possible. When conscience is controlled, decline is inevitable. History has echoed this truth.
God is the Author of freedom, the Author of choice, the Author of prosperity. His blueprint for human flourishing—revealed in Scripture—quietly shaped the architecture of the American idea. And every time we have aligned our nation with that blueprint, we have surged forward with confidence and purpose.
The question now is whether we will remember what our ancestors knew: that the strength of America does not come from Washington, Wall Street, or Silicon Valley—it comes from a free people whose hope comes from Heaven.
America prospers when it remembers its foundation.
And it rises highest when it honors the God who laid it.