Today our system of law is largely based on compromise. However, when you
compromise, ethics and integrity are lost. The primary issues we are facing as a country
and a state are the ethics and morals in which many in leadership are struggling. Yes, we
have issues with our involvement in the war, with the environment, with energy, with
taxes and so on. But above all is the need for a strong moral foundation.
Our founding fathers understood that integrity is a state of being complete and undivided
in opinion. They were a people who possessed firm principles of high moral and
professional standards, and who applied those principles to the foundation of our nation.
Our heritage is based on the integrity and the confidence of a people who had
uncompromised values, some of whom died to establish the right to elect the leaders of
this land to preserve the peace, prosperity, equality and freedom of all individuals.
Recently our family bought a new American Flag to put outside our home which came
with a small brochure. I read this quote by Henry Cabot Lodge in 1915, “THE FLAG
STANDS FOR ALL THAT WE HOLD DEAR – FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY,
GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE PEOPLE.”
This country was founded by those who had a heart for service to our freedom. They
were a people who were willing to stand and fight for that freedom. But what has
happened? Where do we stand now? And on what do we stand? We have lost touch with
the foundations on which this country was begun.
True government is about building a foundation from the ground up. If you empower the
people, then leadership is not about coming down from the top. Many people today no
longer feel empowered as they once did, and it is for this reason a lot of people do not
vote. If those in leadership positions, be it in government or business, understood what it
meant to serve the people and empower them, there would be no place for apathy or self
service. There is something to be said about “loving your neighbor as yourself”, and that
the “greatest of all is the servant of all.”
My passion is to serve the people and my nation – to serve with all my heart, all my
mind, and all my strength. If this can be our foundation, then all the other issues will have
something solid “on which to stand.”
Join me. The next six years will bring us out of our comfort zones, demolish old mind
sets, and bring about a paradigm shift that our country so desperately needs.
Thank you,
Rick Sikma
Candidate for US Senate
compromise, ethics and integrity are lost. The primary issues we are facing as a country
and a state are the ethics and morals in which many in leadership are struggling. Yes, we
have issues with our involvement in the war, with the environment, with energy, with
taxes and so on. But above all is the need for a strong moral foundation.
Our founding fathers understood that integrity is a state of being complete and undivided
in opinion. They were a people who possessed firm principles of high moral and
professional standards, and who applied those principles to the foundation of our nation.
Our heritage is based on the integrity and the confidence of a people who had
uncompromised values, some of whom died to establish the right to elect the leaders of
this land to preserve the peace, prosperity, equality and freedom of all individuals.
Recently our family bought a new American Flag to put outside our home which came
with a small brochure. I read this quote by Henry Cabot Lodge in 1915, “THE FLAG
STANDS FOR ALL THAT WE HOLD DEAR – FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY,
GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE PEOPLE.”
This country was founded by those who had a heart for service to our freedom. They
were a people who were willing to stand and fight for that freedom. But what has
happened? Where do we stand now? And on what do we stand? We have lost touch with
the foundations on which this country was begun.
True government is about building a foundation from the ground up. If you empower the
people, then leadership is not about coming down from the top. Many people today no
longer feel empowered as they once did, and it is for this reason a lot of people do not
vote. If those in leadership positions, be it in government or business, understood what it
meant to serve the people and empower them, there would be no place for apathy or self
service. There is something to be said about “loving your neighbor as yourself”, and that
the “greatest of all is the servant of all.”
My passion is to serve the people and my nation – to serve with all my heart, all my
mind, and all my strength. If this can be our foundation, then all the other issues will have
something solid “on which to stand.”
Join me. The next six years will bring us out of our comfort zones, demolish old mind
sets, and bring about a paradigm shift that our country so desperately needs.
Thank you,
Rick Sikma
Candidate for US Senate
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