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"We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other." --Thomas Jefferson - The Federalist Patriot Founders Quote Daily Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue… John Adams, June 21, 1776 "[R]eligion and virtue are the only
foundations, not of "The establishment of Civil and Religious
Liberty was the Motive "It yet remains a problem to be solved in
human affairs, whether "The whole of that Bill [of Rights] is a
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"An unlimited power to tax involves,
necessarily, a power to "Each individual of the society has a right
to be protected by A
government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support
of Paul. We
contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a
man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. --Winston
Churchill ______----********O********----______ THE
GIPPER
votes to obtain instant satisfaction. Then equal
opportunity at the starting line becomes an extended guarantee of at
least a tie at the finish of the race. Under the euphemism “the
greatest good for the greatesty number, “ we destroy a system which
has accomplished just that and move toward the managed economy which
strangles freedom and mortgages generations yet to come.” –Ronald
Reagan – The Federalist Government's
view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases If it
moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving,
subsidize it. -Ronald Reagan (1986) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -Ronald Reagan "Harmony, liberal intercourse with all
Nations, are recommended "We are, heart and soul, friends to the
freedom of the press. "Laws for the liberal education of the
youth, especially of the "In proportion as the structure of a
government gives force to "Public opinion sets bounds to every
government, and is the real "The constitutions of most of our States
assert that all power is ______----********O********----______ LIBERTY
We
rarely get a chance to see another country's editorial An Ode to America~ After the first moments of panic, they raised
their flag ______----********O********----______ CULTURE
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HISTORY
FORGOTTEN This is worth remembering,
because it is true. It's familiar territory, but..... Those of you that
graduated from school after the early 60's were probably never taught
this. Our courts have seen to that ! Did you know that 52 of the 55
signers of "The Declaration of Independence" were orthodox,
deeply committed, Christians? The other three all believed in the Bible
as the divine truth, the God of scripture, and His personal
intervention. It is the same Congress that formed the American Bible
Society, immediately after creating the Declaration of Independence, the
Continental Congress voted to purchase and import 20,000 copies of
Scripture for the people of this nation. Patrick Henry, who is called
the firebrand of the American Revolution, is still remembered for his
words, "Give me liberty or give me death"; but in current
textbooks, the context of these words is omitted. Here is what he
actually said: "An appeal to arms and
the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our
battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the destinies of
nations. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone. Is life so dear or
peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as
for me, give me liberty, or give me death." These sentences have been
erased from our textbooks. Was Patrick Henry a Christian?
The following year, 1776, he wrote this: "It cannot be emphasized
too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by
religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of
Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been
afforded freedom of worship here." Consider these words that
Thomas Jefferson wrote in the front of his well-worn Bible: "I am a
real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I
have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the
unity of our creator." He was also the chairman of the American
Bible Society, which he considered his highest and most important role. On July 4, 1821, President
Adams said, "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this:
"It connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil
government with the principles of Christianity." Calvin Coolidge, our 30th
President of the United States reaffirmed this truth when he wrote,
"The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on
the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if
faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our
country." In 1782, the United States
Congress voted this resolution: "The Congress of the United States
recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools." William Holmes McGuffey is the
author of the McGuffey Reader, which was used for over 100 years in our
public schools with over 125 million copies sold until it was stopped in
1963. President Lincoln called him the "Schoolmaster of the
Nation." Listen to these word of Mr. McGuffey: "The Christian
religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation,
on the character of God, on the great moral Governor of the universe. On
its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free Institutions.
From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From
all these extracts from the Bible, I make no apology." Of the first 108 universities
founded in America, 106 were distinctly Christian, including the first,
Harvard University, chartered in 1636. In the original Harvard
Student Handbook, rule number 1 was that students seeking entrance must
know Latin and Greek so that they could study the Scriptures: "Let
every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider
well, the main end of his life and studies, is, to know God and Jesus
Christ, which is eternal life, John 17:3; and therefore to lay Jesus
Christ as the only foundation for our children to follow the moral
principles of the Ten Commandments." James Madison, the primary
author of the Constitution of the United States, said this: "We
have staked the whole future of all our political constitutions upon the
capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral
principles of the Ten Commandments." Today, we are asking God to
bless America. But, how can He bless a Nation that has departed so far
from Him? Prior to September 11, He was not welcome in America. Most of
what you read in this article has been erased from our textbooks.
Revisionists have rewritten history to remove the truth about our
country's Christian roots. You are encouraged to share
with others, so that the truth of our nation's history will be told. John 3:16. For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in
Him shall not perish but have eternal life! This information shared is
only a drop of cement to help secure a foundation that is crumbling
daily in a losing war that most of the country doesn't even know is
raging on, in, and around them... RETURN TO MAIN PAGE THE
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"My ardent desire is, and my aim has
been...to comply strictly "The circumstances that endanger the safety
of nations are "It has long, however, been my opinion, and
I have never "A judiciary independent of a king or
executive alone, is a good "The dignity and stability of government in
all its branches, "To prevent crimes, is the noblest end and
aim of criminal "[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope
we shall never sacrifice "Nothing is more certain than the
indispensable necessity of "To model our political system upon
speculations of lasting "States, like individuals, who observe their
engagements, are "Nothing is more essential to the
establishment of manners in a "[A] rigid economy of the public
contributions and absolute ______----********O********----______ FOR
THE RECORD
No matter what your views on
President Bush's statement of upcoming war, this, from an English
journalist, is very interesting. Just a word of background, for those of
you who aren't familiar with the UK's Daily Mirror. This is a
notoriously left-wing daily that is normally not supportive of the
Colonials across the Atlantic.
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Daily Mirror
September
11, 2002
One Year Later by
Tony Parsons
ONE
year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting-the mass
murder of thousands, live on television. As a lesson in the pitiless
cruelty of the human race, September 11 was up there with Pol Pot's
mountain of skulls in Cambodia, or the skeletal bodies stacked like
garbage in the Nazi concentration camps.
An
unspeakable act so cruel, so calculated and so utterly merciless that
surely the world could agree on one thing - nobody deserves this fate.
Surely there could be consensus: the victims were truly innocent, the
perpetrators truly evil.
But
to the world's eternal shame, 9/11 is increasingly seen as America's
comeuppance. Incredibly, anti-Americanism has increased over the last
year.
There
has always been a simmering resentment to the USA in this country too
loud, too rich, too full of themselves and so much happier than
Europeans - but it has become an epidemic. And it seems incredible to
me. More than that, it turns my stomach.
America
is this country's greatest friend and our staunchest ally. We are bonded
to the US by culture, language and blood. A little over half a century
ago, around half a million Americans died for our freedoms, as well as
their own. Have we forgotten so soon? And exactly a year ago, thousands
of ordinary men, women and children - not just Americans, but from
dozens of countries - were butchered by a small group of religious
fanatics. Are we so quick to betray them?
What
touched the heart about those who died in the twin towers and on the
planes was that we recognized them. Young fathers and mothers,
somebody's son and somebody's daughter, husbands and wives, and
children, some unborn.
And
these people brought it on themselves? And their nation is to blame for
their meticulously planned slaughter? These
days you don't have to be some dust-encrusted nut job in Kabul or
Karachi or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great Satan. The
anti-American alliance is made up of self-loathing liberals who blame
the Americans for every ill in the Third World, and conservatives
suffering from power-envy, bitter that the world's only superpower can
do what it likes without having to ask permission.
The
truth is that America has behaved with enormous restraint since
September 11.
Remember,
remember.
Remember
the gut-wrenching tapes of weeping men phoning their wives to say,
"I love you," before they were burned alive.
Remember
those people leaping to their deaths from the top of burning
skyscrapers.
Remember
the hundreds of firemen buried alive. Remember
the smiling face of that beautiful little girl who was on one of the
planes with her mum.
Remember,
remember - and realize that America has never retaliated for 9/11 in
anything like the way it could have. So
a few al-Qaeda tourists got locked without a trial in Camp X-ray? Pass
the Kleenex...
So
some Afghan wedding receptions were shot up after they merrily fired
their semi-automatics in a sky full of American planes? A shame, but
maybe next time they should stick to confetti. AMERICA
could have turned a large chunk of the world into a parking lot. That it
didn't is a sign of strength. American voices are already being raised
against attacking Iraq - that's what a democracy is for. How many in the
Islamic world will have a minute's silence for the slaughtered innocents
of 9/11? How many Islamic leaders will have the guts to say that the
mass murder of 9/11 was an abomination? When
the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank, those freedom-loving
Palestinians were dancing in the street. America watched all of that -
and didn't push the button. We should thank the stars that America is
the most powerful nation in the world. I still find it incredible that
9/11 did not provoke all-out war. Not a "war on terrorism." A
real war. The
fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening the gates of
hell," if America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have opened the
gates of hell like you wouldn't believe. The
US is the most militarily powerful nation that ever strode the face of
the earth. The campaign in Afghanistan may have been less than perfect
and the planned war on Iraq may be misconceived. But
don't blame America for not bringing peace and light to these wretched
countries. How many democracies are there in the Middle East, or in the
Muslim world? You can count them on the fingers of one hand - assuming
you haven't had any chopped off for minor shoplifting. I
love America, yet America is hated. I guess that makes me Bush's poodle.
But I would rather be a dog in New York City than a Prince in Riyadh.
Above all, America is hated because it is what every country wants to be
- rich, free, strong, open, optimistic. Not ground down by the past, or
religion, or some caste system. America is the best friend this country
ever had and we should start remembering that.
Or
do you really think the USA is the root of all evil? Tell it to the
loved ones of the men and women who leaped to their death from the
burning towers.
Tell
it to the nursing mothers whose husbands died on one of the hijacked
planes, or were ripped apart in a collapsing skyscraper. And tell it to
the hundreds of young widows whose husbands worked for the New York Fire
Department.
To
our shame, George Bush gets a worse press than Saddam Hussein. Once we
were told that Saddam gassed the Kurds, tortured his own people and set
up rape-camps in Kuwait. Now we are told he likes Quality Street. Save
me the orange center, oh mighty one!
Remember,
remember, September 11. One of the greatest atrocities in human history
was committed against America. No,
do more than remember. Never forget Let's never forget those who have sacrificed their lives so that we may believe and say what we believe. Whether you believe what General Hawley has to say or not, believe that he has the right to say it and we have the right to hear it and then think about it! And pray for those who are defending our right to do so. General Hawley is a newly retired USAF 4 star
general. He commanded the Air Combat Command [our front-line
fighters and bombers] at Langley AFB, VA. He is now retired and no
longer required to be politically correct. A true patriot!
"We're good" doesn't mean, "We're perfect." Okay? The only perfect being is the bearded guy on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The plain fact is that our country has, with all our mistakes and blunders, always been and always will be the greatest beacon of freedom, charity, opportunity, and affection in
history. If you need proof, open all the borders on Earth and see what
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