And pursuing it in a way that preserves liberty.
My generation grew up reciting a pledge of allegiance. Each morning we asserted that America is a nation “indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
That was Eisenhower’s America. Most of the adults had been partners in the united efforts that had toppled Nazism, fascism, and Japanese militarism, and who were even then keeping communism in check.
In my childhood, the main moral lessons had stressed not the “justice” part of the pledge as much as the “liberty.” The free world stood in solidarity against the communist enslavers of half of Europe. I was taught the continuity between that struggle and the ancient struggle of my ancestors to be free from Pharaoh and Egyptian slavery. Our heritage, we children understood, tied us to people everywhere who sought freedom. Under G-d, we can do no less. Liberty is for all.
Shmuel Klatzkin – The American Spectator – June 20, 2020.
