the united states of america take a good look at the map you remember that for every square mile we have there are fifteen more in the rest of the world for every worker we have in the rest of the world the odds against us are about fifteen to one in the land and in workforce only about one out of five workers in our country is on our six million farms and ranches but they produce enough to feed all of us and four out of every five workers are in work in our four million other works and remember all together we have about half the productive power of the whole world with an economy of this size naturally we have great problems you know what our biggest problems are and what you want done about them let's look them over we declared our independence way back in seventeen seventy six we said officially that we take our rights from god and then we the people will keep the power of government in our hands the main purpose of  limited government is to secure our rights while we have amended our constitution many times we have not changed that purpose do you think we should do you think we should change the democracy a republic for the dictatorship of a regimented state do you think you'd be better off with unlimited government by fear in other words should government be the servant of the master of the people so far you have a free choice but do you care does it make a difference to you of course it does the difference is so that you have to live it to really appreciate the people down there are so different from other people around the world but they have something that's hard to get and easy to lose and they have a right in their own hands a great gift of freedom we all want to better world we want all we can get why not that's the number one problem of every living human being in the world and there are always only three things to work with the first thing is natural resources the land the soil and everything underneath it and on top of it the second thing is men power our own brains and must the third thing is to that's all there is nature man power and to how you live depends on how we manage those three things for instance the american indians have the same chance we have at our natural resources same so can underneath at the same iron ore coal oil gas all the rest of it including all that with you we had some tools but they weren't very good and and this is the important difference he didn't improve his two whole tribe of indians couldn't produce as much food as this one farm again today we have improved all free things and we just started we make a better use of our cern at me this is a family farm and i'm the manager and a hired hand and everything else and the guy that decided to go in for conservation for instance pays off when they wear out beyond that i have to save enough to carry me through the bad years when it comes to taxes last guy had to pay them too and it all has to come and it does come out of what i can get for what i produce and i gotta get back to work it all depends on how we use our natural resources our human energy and on how we get and improve our too but we're so specialized in this country that it's hard to realize how much we depend on each other it's a problem because we all want all we can get and we all want to give as little as possible for  minute you cut the price of these revenge rate is too much and what happens to me well you cut the price of beef too much what happens to me what about me what about all of us as customer you're not even from anybody else when you go to buy something you want as much as you can get for as little as you can get and when you sell something you want to get as much for it as you can and you're free in this country to bargain maybe the best way to put it this remember the progress in human welfare always depends on the better use of natural resources human energy and to what to keep and improve what we have we have to keep our individual freedom to work to make things to produce our freedom to save and invest in the tools that multiply the output of our men if you have some life insurance or have a bank account you've already helped yourself get more and better too so your work will be easier and much more productive when we talk about him to remember we mean more than him to lose martin power to women the building the land they stand on all the equipment all the facilities anything and everything that helps us get more real production and get it more easily we have the best workmen and the best to we are the most productive nation and that very fact is a problem right here in the united states we have great problems not only a steady employment steady production of food shelter and comforts but we have great problems as sectional and social inequality real problems of security and human welfare but don't forget that the answer to these problems depends on what happens to our ten million work places where freedom of an individual decision to try out a new idea a new product to make a profit or loss ten million places with freedom of choice so successful that we double our standard of living every generation we have the problem of keeping what we have and secret ballot nobody can look over your shoulder when you vote when you step behind that curtain and write out your own personal choice your alone with your conscience and your go if you have any doubt about how good all this is think of the rest of the world look back at what we have from over there take ellis island for example why do you think so many millions and millions of people are trying so desperately to get over here they'd trade places with us right now we're free to leave but some countries are buyers and iron curtains just to keep their citizens where they are that tells us something about this country and other countries we have great problems the problem of war and the problem of peace the problem of keeping in improving what we have some people would like to change what we have how do you feel about the purpose of our government do you want limited government by a long time government without our consent government which preserves our real freedoms or do you want some other kind of government even unlimited total government where no man is free men made what we have men can change or destroy the way we meet our problems today may in another too distant future decide between a dictatorship or a democracy in our hands we still have a free choice and well we still have a free choice let's talk about what it means to you