PROGRESS-INDEX

At a time when it seems so hard to believe in ourselves, it's important to take a look at where we have been in the last two hundred years. From a group of agricultural communities we built the largest and most technologically powerful economy in the world. From a nation of immigrants and frontiersmen traveling with all of their worldly possessions, we become the wealthiest nation in the world. From a militia of countrymen with muskets, we developed the most sophisticated and specialized military in the world. From a group of thirteen loosely-affiliated colonies, we became the oldest continuing democracy in the world... We are the people that invented the light bulb, the telephone, the computer, and the artificial heart. We are the people that pioneered the automobile, the train, and the airplane. We put a man on the moon. We discovered DNA. We built the finest universities, a rich and robust legal system, and a vibrant and enduring political process. We have vast natural resources,..

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