| In this time of moral and political crises,
it is the responsibility of the youth of America to affirm
certain eternal truths.
We, as young conservatives,
believe:
That foremost among the transcendent values is
the individual's use of his God-given free will, whence
derives his right to be free from the restrictions of
arbitrary force;
That liberty is indivisible, and that
political freedom cannot long exist without economic
freedom;
That the purpose of government is to protect
those freedoms through the preservation of internal order, the
provision of national defense, and the administration of
justice;
That when government ventures beyond these
rightful functions, it accumulates power, which tends to
diminish order and liberty;
That the Constitution of the United States is
the best arrangement yet devised for empowering government to
fulfill its proper role, while restraining it from the
concentration and abuse of power;
That the genius of the Constitution- the
division of powers- is summed up in the clause that reserves
primacy to the several states, or to the people, in those
spheres not specifically delegated to the Federal
government;
That the market economy, allocating resources
by the free play of supply and demand, is the single economic
system compatible with the requirements of personal freedom
and constitutional government, and that it is at the same time
the most productive supplier of human needs;
That when government interferes with the work
of the market economy, it tends to reduce the moral and
physical strength of the nation; that when it takes from one
man to bestow on another, it diminishes the incentive of the
first, the integrity of the second, and the moral autonomy of
both;
That we will be free only so long as the
national sovereignty of the United States is secure; that
history shows periods of freedom are rare, and can exist only
when free citizens concertedly defend their rights against all
enemies;
That the forces of international Communism
are, at present, the greatest single threat to these
liberties;
That the United States should stress victory
over, rather than coexistance with, this menace;
and
That American foreign policy must be judged by
this criterion: does it serve the just interests of the United
States? | 
