Labor & Employment Law

Much To Be Thankful For

For it is true that everywhere men turn their eyes today much of the world has a truly wild and savage hue. No man, if he be truthful, can say that the specter of war is banished. Nor can he say that when men or communities are put upon their own resources they are sure of solace; nor be sure that men of diverse kinds and diverse views can live peaceably together in a time of troubles.

But we can all remind ourselves that the richness of this country was not born in the resources of the earth, though they be plentiful, but in the men that took its measure. For that reminder is everywhere -- in the cities, towns, farms, roads, factories, homes, hospitals, schools that spread everywhere over that wilderness.

We can remind ourselves that for all our social discord we yet remain the longest enduring society of free men governing themselves without benefit of kings or dictators. Being so, we are the marvel and the mystery of the world, for that enduring liberty is no less a blessing than the abundance of the earth.

The article that this passage was taken from has appeared the day before Thanksgiving every year since 1961 in the Wall Street Journal.  It is a great reminder that despite our day-to-day frustrations and disagreements, our country is great, and we have much to be thankful for.

Full post as published by California Labor & Employment Defense Blog on November 21, 2007 (boomark / email).