On its Centennial, the Republican Party again calls to the minds of all Americans the great truth first spoken by Abraham Lincoln: '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. The Republican Party was formed 100 years ago to preserve the Nation's devotion to these ideals. Our Government was created by the people for all the people, and it must serve no less a purpose. They not only proclaimed that the freedom and rights of men came from the Creator and not from the State, but they provided safeguards to those freedoms. We give devoted homage to the Founding Fathers.
the source of every man's dignity and freedom. America's trust is in the merciful providence of God, in whose image every man is created.
