6.2.2026 – afforded the most

afforded the most
spacious ample life that has
ever been witnessed

Adapted from the passage in the essay, “Roosevelt from Afar” in the book, Great Contemporaries by Winston Churchill, (Thornton Butterworth Ltd.: London, 1937) where Mr. Churchill writes.

It is a very open question, which any household may argue to the small hours, whether it is better to have equality at the price of poverty, or well-being at the price of inequality.

Life will be pretty rough, anyhow.

Whether we are ruled by tyrannical bureaucrats or self-seeking capitalists, the ordinary man who has to earn his living, and tries to make provision for old age and for his dear ones when his powers are exhausted, will have a hard pilgrimage through this dusty world.

The United States was built upon property, liberty and enterprise, and certainly it has afforded the most spacious and ample life to the scores of millions that has ever yet been witnessed.

This was in 1937.

Pretty much the world was still the grip of a global depression with Nazi Germany picking up speed.

And Mr. Churchill wrote of the United States of America that it:

was built upon property,

liberty

and enterprise,

and certainly it has afforded the most spacious and ample life to the scores of millions that has ever yet been witnessed.

Mr. Churchill writes, Life will be pretty rough, anyhow.

Mr. Churchill writes, the ordinary man who has to earn his living, and tries to make provision for old age and for his dear ones when his powers are exhausted, will have a hard pilgrimage through this dusty world.

And still Mr. Churchill writes, built upon property, liberty and enterprise, and certainly it has afforded the most spacious and ample life to the scores of millions that has ever yet been witnessed.

How did we do this?

Mr. Jefferson said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

All are created equal.

Accepting that and somehow, it afforded the most spacious and ample life to the scores of millions that has ever yet been witnessed.

Making America Great … again?

Always thought it kinda was.