The Founders' Speech To A Nation In Crisis: What the Founders Would Say to America Today

"I am a great fan of history, our exceptional Nation, its Founders, and our way of life here...so this book seemed a good choice to refresh my memory about what we were and still should be all about. I was not disappointed in the least! The book is written as a speech to the nation, composed of the actual words spoken or written by many of the Founding Fathers and a few others. Incredible and inspiring! Some may say they weren't thinking of the future when they were writing over 200 years ago, but I have to say, their thoughts and ideas are just as relevant today as they were back then. Time has not dimmed their foresight. This book will move those that are thrilled with the history of our great nation, and give courage to stand against the tide wishing to drown our incredible history with undue criticism and scandal. This book will renew your love of how our country came to be, the benefits we derived from these great men and their lofty ideals, the promise of a new nation conceived in liberty. I highly recommend this book."P. Creery "Excellent book. Purchased it for Educational reasons...now I recommend it to all educational institutions... public and private." " The unity of this book is powerful, but the most impressive aspect of the book is the fact that the figures who arose from the enlightenment saw precisely the kinds of challenges which we face today. Their views are familiar; we need an educated, religious and virtuous populace but we also need a brave populace, willing to fight to the death to preserve our precious liberty. We must have no illusions with regard to man's fallen nature and be ever vigilant with regard to the need of checks and balances on power (as Montesquieu here reminds us). We must resist the assumed power of elites, Jefferson points out; the government works for us and not us for them.In some ways this is a sort of commonplace book or a vade mecum, a book of common (political) prayer, something to which we can and must return when we need to be reminded of the stakes, the wishes of liberty's adversaries and how their siren song of socialism has brought death and oceans of blood. One hopes that it will be shared widely and that readers will attend to its collected wisdom." "It is nearly impossible to put this book down. The author has managed to consolidate the ethos of our democratic Republic by consolidating the thoughts or words of our founders and other important thinkers from following generations. The index is a who's who of the most important people of our Republic. Every elected official at every level of government should read this book. Every appointed official that has even a remote connection with the policy should read this book. This book should be used in schools. Students should be required to pass a quiz to advance in grade and another quiz to graduate based on this book. Every citizen should read this book!" "This is the first book in History that has compiled the writings of the founders of our great country along with many who followed who are recognized as transformative individuals for the good of mankind. The Bible is the resource for the word of God. This book is the resource for current generations to understand the principles and deliberations of what has made our country what it is. Every family should have this book and discuss its contents as part of a regular curriculum of education and of broadening one's understanding of why we are a country of laws." "My heart has been aching, wondering what our Founding Father's would think of our country today...then I found this book. I was in tears just in the Prologue! How did we let things get so far from the original intent? How do we get it back? Every American should have and read this book! My dream is to get the Founder's Bible in every American's home and now I want to add this book to it as well!" The initial inspiration for this book stemmed from a robust political debate between me and my two adult sons. Wanting to make my case from the Founders' perspective, I dashed to my bookshelf to peruse books on the Founding, soon returning with a stack, each with a piece of the answer. We spent hours that night, as we often do, discussing the affairs of the day and how the Founders would speak to those issues.xa0Following that conversation, and for my own edification, I determined it would be easier to reference the Founders' ideas if I could pull them from a single source. Having the most relevant words of the Founders in one place would both equip me for the next political discussion with my sons, and inform my public speaking on the topic.xa0A few months later I gave a presentation on the founding ideals in the words of the Founding Fathers at the Western Conservative Summit in Colorado. Following the positive response, it dawned on me that the presentation of the Founders' words in the form of a speech needed to be a book. I needed to write a relatable and relevant book to a modern audience that could also serve as a single resource for the Founders' thoughts and the principles — in their own words.xa0From my home office in Woodstock, Georgia, I set out to collect and collate the most relevant texts from the Founders' speeches, essays, letters, and the Federalist Papers , weaving them into a tapestry of a speech that builds and develops as a narrative. I knew it would take time, but I did not expect to be pulled into a two-year immersion of their texts and, even more surprisingly, into the words of those who inspired them, as well as many they inspired in the generations that followed. But to tell the full story of America, and of the enlightenment of which they were a part, and through which their promise of equality was eventually kept, I needed to include them all. I needed to hear — and wanted to make accessible — the relevance of all of their words to our issues today, as if the Founders had together visited modern-day America, and reconvened to compose a single speech that would recall America to its founding principles.xa0As I crafted The Founders' Speech to a Nation in Crisis , I imagined the readers as an audience, standing in the back of a town hall meeting, or sitting in a church pew listening intently as the Founders' speech was delivered. I pictured "Scribe," as I eventually called him, at the front of the church, narrating the Founders' words with passion, as though speaking them for the first time.xa0To help the reader follow the speech, I have enumerated and italicized the author of each text in a superscript citation for immediate attribution. Several texts have been mildly curated to support the narrative, for pronoun consistency, and for modern usage standards.xa0While this book illustrates how the Founding Fathers agreed on the core principles of liberty, it also digs into the disagreements of the Constitutional Convention, as well as the threats of tyranny that soon challenged our fledgling nation in the ensuing years, and continue to challenge our nation to this day. And thus my purpose for this book is to bring to life the ethos and principles of America's founding while reminding us of who we are as Americans — as a nation of citizens with a common history, as a people with a faith-rooted belief in virtue, and as patriots with a shared commitment to liberty. My hope is that Americans may once again revere the miracle of our nation's founding, that we might once again unite around our shared American creed, E pluribus unum : Out of many, one From the Inside Flap If the Founding Fathers surveyed our nation today and together composed a single speech to America, what would they say? To answer that question, author Steven Rabb meticulously curated the words of the Founders from their documents and letters and crafted them into a beautiful narrative that defines and defends America's founding principles. The Founders Speech To a Nation in Crisis is a tapestry of liberty woven into ten themed chapters that culminate with a robust defense of the right to keep and bear arms, private property, the rule of law,and a call to action for every American. The Prologue chronicles a current day fictionalized reunion of America's Founding Fathers at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Through a stroke of providence, the Founders have assembled once again to take up their pen and save the country they love. Their resulting work, The Founders' Speech to a Nation in Crisis , is a celebration of America's founding principles, a primer on the Constitution, a clarion call to defend religious liberty, a caution on human nature, a voice for economic freedom, and a rallying cry to reclaim our country, once again, from the outstretched arms of tyranny. As an executive leader and public speaker for two decades,xa0Steven Rabb developed the talent of distilling complex subjects to their essence to help teams achieve their mission. But Steven's own mission changed as he saw chaos and extremism wreak havoc on America's institutions, communities, and lives across our nation. What started as a part-time passion project soon consumed him and ultimately redirected his background in training and storytelling to the mission he cares about most—saving America.To achieve his mission, Steven spent two years painstakingly compiling the words of the Founding Fathers into a narrative form around themes relevant to our world today. As he began developing The Founders' Speech to a Nation in Crisis, Steven's training and speaking experience came in handy as he scoured through thousands of texts and hundreds of sources to mine the words that would recall Americans to their founding ethos and principles. In so doing, Steven has not only crafted a powerful and compelling read, but he has also created a single source for the brilliant and still relevant words of the Founding Fathers in a treasure that will be enjoyed for generations to come.xa0Steven is currently working on his second and third books in The Founders' Speech series, The Founders' Speech On Tyranny and The Founders' Speech To Save America . Read more