Why We Exist
"A [People] seldom troubles to define itself while the definition can safely be left unspoken. What we are belongs to ordinary life the way the rules of a language belong to a native speaker—known perfectly, articulated never, because there has never been any occasion to articulate it. It is only when the settled arrangement begins to strain—when something long taken for granted is suddenly in dispute—that a People finds itself reaching a little clumsily for words it never needed before. [The American] has arrived at that moment."
— Adapted from Crispin Rovere
We are a People—the posterity of the Europeans responsible for building this Nation. The hardships our ancestors endured as they settled this Land—and the bonds they formed along the way—forged the American Ethnos. Our People possess a unique character born of our shared ancestry, culture, history, institutions, and habits of association. From this character springs our identity and the inherent dignity a People derives therefrom. It is this enduring identity that we must foster for ourselves and our Posterity.