Larry Kilham Blog |
The biggest problem today is hearing the truth from politicians. How can they tell the truth? They need liberty to search for and to tell the truth. All their personal, family, group, and organization compromises restrain their ability to reveal the truth. President George Washington knew that invention and innovation were key to American growth. He urged Congress to pass a patent statute where "there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science." In 1790 the first patent statute was passed and the United States leadership in industrial innovation began. Almost two centuries later, President John F. Kennedy said in an address to the Irish Parliament in 1963 "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were." See more about vision and invention here. |