We see with new clarity that centralized government bureaucracies created in this century are not the wave of the future. More important, it liberates the way people think. The Fall of the Berlin Wall symbolizes an epochal change in the way people live. We have defended our core principles for 138 years but never has this country, and the world, been so receptive to our message. Republicans have always believed that economic prosperity comes from individual enterprise, not government programs. We believe that most problems of human making are within the capacity of human ingenuity to solve.įor good reason, millions of new Americans have flocked to our shores: America has always been an opportunity society. But in all that people can individually do as well for themselves, Government ought not to interfere." The Vision Shared: The Republican Platform, Uniting Our Family, Our Country, Our WorldĪbraham Lincoln, our first Republican President, expressed the philosophy that inspires Republicans to this day: "The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities.
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