The Founding Fathers of our country endowed succeeding generations with a great heritage of faith in God and an affirmation that He endowed us with certain inalienable rights. He is the source of our liberty, not any monarch or elected official. If the pioneer spirit of rugged individualism and the hallmarks of that spirit, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, are to survive in the Twenty-First Century, our young people must be prepared for and committed to achieving the virtues of excellence.
Individual liberty and freedom of enterprise are blessings bequeathed to us by men of virtue like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. The Founding Fathers and the ideals they believed in are many times taken for granted, unappreciated and on occasion, maligned by our youth. These cherished principles which render life a richness will not always exist, but like an endangered species, could be lost forever.
Each new generation must step forward to uphold the mantle of responsibility that is part of this ongoing experiment in self-government. Our freedoms can only be preserved if young people clearly understand what the framers knew, that liberty has a moral and spiritual foundation and is firmly rooted in the concept of limited government. Preserving our liberty requires a constituency that is educated and motivated regarding the preservation of the fundamentals of our American way of life.
No segment of the populace is more important to the future of this country than our young people. They are America's destiny. Also, there is no other national event, activity or organization so constituted by design to galvanize America's youth to realize their full potential as is the Teenage World's Fair. If you have not caught that vision, it is simply because you have not had the opportunity to learn of the concept in its entirety.
"In America people found epic space, epic resources, and epic opportunity. These are the basic American images, backed up by all the epic wordage of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights. No other country has such wordage. It was in America that for the first time in history human beings were offered guarantees about life. Freedom was the keynote of those guarantees and it has been a constant theme in American movies right from the start." From Hollywood and the American Image, by Tony Thomas.
Sadly, that is no longer true regarding the American motion picture industry (see The Golden Age of Hollywood). However, we are committed to reestablishing wholesome, inspiring, and partiotic entertainment once again.
Each of us who is a citizen of this land is wealthy, whether we have one dollar or millions, because of the opportunities afforded us by the Constitution. But regardless of how our wealth is measured, we are stewards - accountable to the Almighty for the use of everything we receive from Him, including our time, talents and means. The Teenage World's Fair is dedicated to the principles that inspired the creation of the Constitution and in communicating to this rising generation the need for a people who will both honor and uphold it.
It is our mission and sincerest hope that Teenage World's Fair and other related projects produced at the corporate campus will perserve the spirit of liberty and spiritual wisdom bequeathed to us by our Forefathers unto the youth of the 21st century.
"A Nation Which Does Not Remember What It Was Yesterday, Does Not Know What It Is Today, Nor What It Is Trying To Do. We Are Trying To Do A Futile Thing If We Do Not Know Where We Came From Or What We Have Been About."
Woodrow Wilson
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