A Republic: Not a democracy,
not Marxism, not Socialism...
What is YOUR foundation?
Liberty from God with Biblical boundaries
or
Mandates from Government with unfounded boundaries?
"Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants." --Benjamin
Franklin
Keep voting for Marxists (Democrats & RINOs), we'll get
Marxism...
Fill in the blank: Raising taxes
on job creators to create jobs is ________!
"Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face."
--Thomas Sowell
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
because you have rejected knowledge..." Hosea 4:6
Psalms 2:1-5: Why do the heathen rage, and the
people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the
rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed,
saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He
that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then
shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Hosea 4:6-10: My people are
destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will
also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten
the
law
of thy God, I will also forget thy
children. As they were increased, so they sinned
against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. They eat up the sin
of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. And there shall be,
like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them
their doings. For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit
whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the
LORD.
Natural Law: The Ultimate
Source of Constitutional Law -
Natural law is the basis for
Jefferson’s assertions in the Declaration of Independence.
- "Man ... must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator.. This will of
his Maker is called the law of nature.... This law of nature...is of course
superior to any other.... No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to
this: and such of them as are valid derive all their force...from this
original." - Sir William Blackstone (Eminent English Jurist)
The Founders
DID NOT establish the Constitution for the purpose of granting rights. Rather,
they established this government of laws (not a government of men) in order
to secure each person's Creator endowed rights to life, liberty, and property.
Only in America, did a nation's founders recognize that rights, though endowed
by the Creator as unalienable prerogatives, would not be sustained in society
unless they were protected under a code of law which was itself in harmony with
a higher law. They called it "natural law," or "Nature's law." Such law is the
ultimate source and established limit for all of man's laws and is intended to
protect each of these natural rights for all of mankind. The Declaration of
Independence of 1776 established the premise that in America a people might
assume the station "to which the laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them.."
Janet Miriam Taylor Caldwell author
(1900-1985)
-
"[H]ow do we know at what point the character of a people
weakens? When they give over to government those duties which they should be
pleased to perform themselves. When they are told they will be fed and sheltered
even when they won't work, when they are promised security from the cradle to
the grave, when they are told the state will take over the supervision of their
children and say what schooling they should receive and where. When they are
told all these things and supinely accept them."
Charles Finney wrote: "The time has come for
Christians to vote for honest men, and take consistent ground in politics or the
Lord will curse them...Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as
this, and Christians must do their duty to their country as a part of their duty
to God." ..."God will bless or curse this nation according to the course
Christians take in politics."
This is not 1776, when America was permeated with Biblical
moral virtue. America is currently permeated with "progressive political
correctness," which requires relinquishing Biblical moral virtue. In order to
restore the Republic as our Christian Founders intended, requires the core
Biblical foundation which was the motivating factor in how America's Founders
confronted EVERY issue, whether social, fiscal, national, and international. In
order to restore the "American Way of Life" for our descendants, American
citizens, those who are also citizens of the Kingdom of God, must begin to honor
and obey their Lord's call to become the Salt & Light they are called to be, as
“ambassadors” for their King, by preaching not only John 3:16, but what Jesus
admonished in the same breath through verse 21. Instead of limiting “preaching”
only 1 Timothy 2, they need to proclaim 2 Timothy 4 as well.
The Provincial Congress issued a Resolution to
Massachusetts Bay, 1774: "Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and
social duty of each individual... Continue steadfast, and with a proper sense
of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no
man ought to take from us."
Many timid Christians have been deceptively silenced,
because they are unsure of their foundation in Christ. Progressives have
successfully used the ploy of false charges that Christians are being offensive,
and intolerant, and worse, have fallen prey to the mistaken claim that
Christians should not judge. This reveals many Christians are not founded on the
Word of God, do not wear in the full armor of God, and are disobedient to their
Lord's call to be the Salt & Light of the earth to boldly preaching the Word of
God and reproving the world of sin. Imagine if Jesus, His Apostles, and Paul
were apathetic and did not "reprove the world of sin?" (2 Timothy 4:1-5)
H.W. Prentiss created an outline for nations that
described a progression: "from bondage to spiritual faith, to courage, to
liberty, to abundance, to selfishness, to complacency, to apathy, to dependence,
back to bondage."
From the Pulpit to the Battlefield: Unlike 1776
when "We the people" went on the offense and and kept tyranny on the defense,
tyranny, now in the form of progressive political correctness, is again on the
offense and "we the people" of Biblical moral virtue are now on the defense.
Perhaps your educators or Pastors neglected to teach you about the Black Robed
Regiment, Rev. John Wise, Rev. John Peter Muhlenberg, Rev. Jonas Clark, Rev.
Nathaniel Whitaker, and that nearly all minutemen were Christians. Will American
Christians today accept that same challenge?
Thomas Paine: "Those who
expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of
supporting it."
William Penn: "Those people
who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." American writer Elmer
Davis - "The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not
preserve it."
Thomas Jefferson: "Resistance to tyrants is
obedience to God." and "It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve
a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the
heart of its laws and constitution." --Thomas
Jefferson, Notes on the Virginia Query 19, 1781
The men of Marlborough, Massachusetts who took part in the
Boston Tea Party: "Death is more eligible than
slavery. A free-born people are not required by the religion of Jesus Christ to
submit to tyranny, but may make use of such power as God has given them to
recover and support their liberties..."
Charles Carroll
wrote::"Without morals a republic cannot subsist any
length of time."
John Dickinson: (Committee to the Representatives in
Assembly of Pennsylvania & signer of the Constitution): "It is not out duty to
leave wealth to our children; but it is our duty to leave liberty."
Lives
Of The Signers Of The Declaration Of Independence
By Charles A. Goodrich (P.46, 59, 60, 62) - Boston Committee Meeting (1773) -
"We have abundant reason to apprehend that a plan of despotism has been
concerted, and is hastening to a completion; the late measures of the
administration have a direct tendency to deprive us of every thing valuable as
men, as Christians, and as subjects, entitled to the rights of native Britons.
...We are not afraid of poverty. ...but we disdain slavery." ...[Britain] had
now formed their plan, and were prepared to announce it. Coercion was to be
their motto, until, in the spirit of submission, America should lay herself down
at her feet. ...Exited by the loyalists (equivalent to progressives today), who
had persuaded him (General Gage) that he would find no resistance from the
cowardice of the patriots...Continental Congress in Philadelphia addressed the
people of Britain: "What has been the success of our endeavors? The
clemency of our sovereign is unhappily diverted; our petitions are treated with
indignity; our prayers answered by insults. Our application to you remains
unnoticed..."
Ben Franklin: "The more the people are discontented
with the oppression of taxes, the greater need the prince has of money to
distribute among his partisans, and pay the troops that are to suppress all
resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a
hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh - get first
all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their
children servants for ever..." ..."There is a natural inclination in
mankind to kingly government. It sometimes relieves them from aristocratic
domination. They would rather have one tyrant than five hundred. It gives more
of the appearance of equality among citizens; and that they like." ..."I am
apprehensive, therefore - perhaps too apprehensive - that the government of the
States may, in future times, end in a monarchy... A king will the
sooner be set over us."
John Adams, letter to Mercy
Warren, 1776: "Men must be ready, they must pride
themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and
interests, nay, their private friendships and dearest connections, when they
stand in competition with the rights of society."
John Adams: "The nature of the encroachment upon
American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching.
Like a cancer; it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates
pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less
steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and
every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until
virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the objects of
ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and
downright venality swallow up the whole of society."
English cleric and writer Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832):
"Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise
themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be
enjoyed."
Theodore Roosevelt: "To sit home, read one's
favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but
it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's
doing." & “A thorough understanding
of the Bible is better than a college education.”
French economist, statesman and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850):
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They
forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone."
President John F. Kennedy: "Every time that we try
to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of
the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our
people."
Samuel Adams:
"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can
any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On
the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their
Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign
Invaders."
Horace Greeley
: “It is impossible to
mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading people. The principles of the Bible
are the groundwork of human freedom.”
Distinguishing between Patriots and cowards, Samuel Adams, said:
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and
then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' ... If ye love wealth
better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of
freedom...crouch down and lick the hands, which feed you. May your chains sit
lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
Jedediah Morse stated in Charleston, Massachusetts, April 25, 1799:
"Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our
present republican forms of government, and all the blessings which flow from
them, must fall with them."
Andrew Jackson:
“That Book (the Bible) is the rock on which our Republic
rests.”
Daniel Webster:
“Education is useless without the
Bible.”
"The republic was not established
by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it."
--American writer Elmer Davis
(1800-1858)
"If you neglect or renounce that religion taught and
commanded in holy scriptures, think no more of freedom, peace, and
happiness...." A PRAYER
FOR OUR NATION AND THE PEOPLE - Delivered by Reverend Samuel Langdon, 1787
"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it
stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may
not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution
should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world." --Daniel
Webster (1782-1852) Author, Lawyer and Patriot
"Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely
to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and
which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure
the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness
which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them."
Thomas Jefferson
"If Congress can do whatever in their
discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the
Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an
indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions." --James Madison
James Madison, Federalist No. 57, 1788 -
"The house of representatives ... can make no law which will not have its
full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of
society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human
policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them
that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments
have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into
tyranny."
"The nature of the encroachment upon American
constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a
cancer; it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners,
and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited
and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day
increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue,
integrity, public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the objects of
ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and
downright venality swallow up the whole of society."Â --John Adams
"Honor, justice,
and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from
our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive
from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding
generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely
entail hereditary bondage on them." --Thomas
Jefferson
"Liberty
will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty;
it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed."
--English cleric and writer Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
"The liberties of
our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at
all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We
have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they
purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and
blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring
an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it
is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a
struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and
designing men."
--Samuel Adams
"Liberalism holds that there is no human
problem that government can't fix if only the right people are put in
charge." --Sarah Palin
"It is when a people forget God that
tyrants forge their chains." - Patrick Henry, Founding Father
"To sit home, read one's favorite paper,
and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is
markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's
doing." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"If there be any among
us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let
them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion
may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." --Thomas
Jefferson
"Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people,
and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but
reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public
affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall
all become wolves." --Thomas
Jefferson
"Make yourself sheep, and the wolves will eat you."
Ben Franklin
"Never give in, never give in, never, never,
never never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except
to convictions of honor and good sense." - Winston Churchill
The Patriot
Post Founders' Quote Daily: "It is an unquestionable truth, that
the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity.
But it is equally unquestionable that they do not possess the discernment
and stability necessary for systematic government. To deny that they are
frequently led into the grossest of errors, by misinformation and passion,
would be a flattery which their own good sense must despise." --
Alexander Hamilton (speech to the Ratifying Convention of New York, June
1788) Reference: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, Henry Cabot Lodge, ed.,
II, 42.
Lights Out on Liberty by Mark Steyn, a Canadian citizen, columnist
and author of "America Alone: The End of The World as We Know It"
and has a realistic but chilling view of what is happening to Western
civilization because of multiculturalism, with Canada and Britain leading
the way in surrendering to Islamic intolerance.
Addressing the New York Historical Society, 1852, Daniel Webster stated:
"If we and our posterity...live always in the fear of God and shall respect
His Commandments...we may have the highest hopes of the future fortunes of our
country.... But if we...neglect religious instruction and authority; violate the
rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and
recklessly destroy the constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how
sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound
obscurity."
"I believe there are more
instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent
encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." --
James
Madison
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day,
that my child may have peace."
Thomas Paine, 1776
Samuel F.B. Morse was the son of
educator Jedediah Morse, known as "Father of American Geography." Jedediah
Morse stated in Charleston, Massachusetts, April 25, 1799: "Whenever
the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican
forms of government, and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall
with them."
American Minute
He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really
cooperating with it." The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 1958
"Independent of its connection with
human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound
up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy
faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of
arbitrary power." Lewis Cass, A Brigadier-General in the War of 1812,
Cass was Governor of the Michigan Territory where he made Indian treaties,
organized townships and built roads. Appointed Secretary of War by President
Andrew Jackson, Lewis Cass was a Senator, Secretary of State for President James
Buchanan and the 1848 Democrat Presidential Candidate. The State of Michigan
placed his statue in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall.
American Minute
"It is not in violence and crime that our
greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very
quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more
serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship,
where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be
more devastating."
Calvin Coolidge Address Before the Daughters of the American Revolution,
Washington, D.C. April 19th, 1926
"As there is a degree of depravity in
mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust: So there
are other qualities in human nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem
and confidence. Republican government presupposes the existence of these
qualities in a higher degree than any other form. Were the pictures which
have been drawn by the political jealousy of some among us, faithful likenesses
of the human character, the inference would be that there is not sufficient
virtue among men for self-government; and that nothing less than the chains of
despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another." James
Madison (Federalist No. 55, 15 February 1788) Reference: Madison, Federalist
No. 55.
"Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes.
The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of
the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The
taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its
anti-humanity." --American author Eric Hoffer
(1902-1983)
"Only a virtuous
people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have
more need of masters." Ben Franklin - April 17, 1787
"Nothing is more
certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people
ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials
together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution
will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue." John Witherspoon
(The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men, 1776) Reference: The
Selected Writings of John Witherspoon, Miller ed. (140-1)
"A trained
intelligence can do much, but there is no substitute for morality, character and
religious conviction."
President Calvin Coolidge,
1924
See also:
Leading By Example
&
Founder's Quotes & more
"Freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction." ..."The
moral underpinnings of our country must be able to bear the weight of today if
we're to pass on to the next generation an America worth having."
Ronald Reagan
"None can love
freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license,
which never hath more scope than under tyrants."
John Milton (1608-1674) English Poet, Scholar, Writer, Patriot
"...man is not free
unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as
neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty
contracts."
Ronald Reagan
"Guard against the
impostures of pretended patriotism."
George
Washington
"I place economy among the first and most important virtues,
and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our
independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run
into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and
in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the
government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring
for them, they will be happy."
Thomas
Jefferson
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state.
They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone."
--French economist, statesman and author Frederic Bastiat
(1801-1850)
"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily
subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary,
when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will
sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders."
Samuel Adams,
Founding Father
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and
silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
President George
Washington
Note to secular
humanists: Before inaccurately and inadequately dismissing
these pages falsely as promoting theocracy, see
Theocracy?
Numerous blog discussions and commentaries have weakly dismissed the HISTORY
presented here as promoting a theocracy as an excuse to escape and avoid the
challenge to secular wisdom. (BTW - What new and improved foundation do secular
humanists use to justify violating
"the Laws of Nature
and of Nature's God?")
"Since private and publick Vices, are in
Reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected, of how much
Importance, how necessary is it, that the utmost Pains be taken by the Publick,
to have the Principles of Virtue early inculcated on the Minds even of children,
and the moral Sense kept alive, and that the wise institutions of our Ancestors
for these great Purposes be encouraged by the Government. For no
people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued,
when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People
are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under
their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders." Samuel
Adams (letter to James Warren, 4 November 1775) Reference: Our Sacred Honor,
Bennett, 261.
"We are, heart and soul, friends to the
freedom of the press. It is however, the prostituted companion of liberty...
It corrupts, it deceives, it inflames. It strips virtue of her honors, and lends
to faction its wildfire and its poisoned arms... It is a precious pest, and a
necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it."Â
Fisher Ames
"The battle, sir, is not to the
strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
Patrick Henry
Distinguishing
between Patriots and cowards, our favorite Founder, Samuel Adams, said:
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should
be the reward of such sacrifices?' ... If ye love wealth better
than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of
freedom...crouch down and lick the hands, which feed you. May your chains sit
lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
PatriotPost.us
"Death is more eligible than slavery. A
free-born people are not required by the religion of Jesus Christ to submit to
tyranny, but may make use of such power as God has given them to recover and
support their liberties..." The men of Marlborough, Massachusetts who
took part in the Boston Tea Party
"Are we disposed to be of the number
of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which
so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of
spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst,
and to provide for it." Patrick Henry
"A compromise which results
in a half-step toward evil is all wrong." Theodore Roosevelt
"All of us
denounce war, all of us consider it man's greatest stupidity. And yet wars happen
and they involve the most passionate lovers of peace because there are still
barbarians in the world who set the price for peace at death or enslavement and
the price is too high."Â Ronald
Reagan
Addressing the New York
Historical Society, 1852, Daniel Webster stated: "If we and our
posterity...live always in the fear of God and shall respect His
Commandments...we may have the highest hopes of the future fortunes of our
country.... But if we...neglect religious instruction and authority; violate the
rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and
recklessly destroy the constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how
sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound
obscurity."
President Harry S Truman
stated in his address to the Attorney General's Conference, February 1950: "The
fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount. The
fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from
Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don't think we emphasize
that enough these days. If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background,
we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in
rights for anybody except for the State."
American Minute for October 27th: His wife and mother died on
Valentine's Day, 1884. Depressed, he left to ranch in the Dakotas. Returning to
New York, he entered politics and rose to Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He
resigned during the Spanish-American War, organized the first Volunteer
Cavalry-the "Rough Riders"-and captured Cuba's San Juan Hill. Elected
Vice-President under William McKinley, he became America's youngest President in
1901. This was Theodore Roosevelt, born OCTOBER 27, 1858. In 1909, Roosevelt
warned: "The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is
a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a
nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us." In
his book "Fear God and Take Your Own Part and Other Essays
," 1916, Theodore Roosevelt wrote:
"The 7th century Christians of Asia and Africa...had trained themselves not to
fight, whereas the Moslems were trained to fight. Christianity was saved in
Europe solely because the peoples of Europe fought the Mohammedans who invaded."
Teddy Roosevelt continued: "The civilization of Europe, America and Australia
exists today only because the victories of civilized man over the enemies of
civilization...that is, to beat back the Moslem invader."
Choices
"There is a rank due to the
United States, among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by
the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to
repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of
our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war."
George Washington (Fifth
Annual Message, 3 December 1793) Reference: George Washington: A
Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (488)
"If a nation expects to be
ignorant and free, it expects what never was and what never will be."
Thomas Jefferson
"God grants liberty only to
those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." Daniel
Webster
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the
fatigue of supporting it." Thomas Paine
"History fails to record a single precedent in
which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic
decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral
lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster."
General MacArthur
Therefore, to those who would forgo the fatigue of
supporting the blessings of freedom:
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your
countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' ... If
ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the
animating contest of freedom...crouch down and lick the hands, which feed you.
May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our
countrymen!" Samuel Adams
"Our unalterable resolution would be to be free.
They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their
arts may be more dangerous then their arms. Let us then renounce all treaty
with them upon any score but that of total separation, and under God trust our
cause to our swords."Â Samuel Adams
"[In war], there is no alternative than to apply every available means to
bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory, not prolonged
indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory." General Douglas
MacArthur
"[D]emocracy will soon
degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is
right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty
will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of
subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the
powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the
capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few." -- John
Adams (An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, 29 August 1763) Reference: Original
Intent, Barton (338); original The Papers of John Adams, Taylor, ed., vol. 1
(83)
"The rights of man come not
from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." John F.
Kennedy
"America will never be
destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be
because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham
Lincoln
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed;
if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come
to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only
a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to
fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to
live as slaves." Winston Churchill
Abigail Adams wrote to Mercy Otis Warren, NOVEMBER 5, 1775:
(AmericanMinute.com) "A patriot without religion in my estimation is as
great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible
that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very
bonds of Society, corrupting the Morals of Youth, and by his bad example
injuring the very Country he professes to patronize more than he can possibly
compensate by intrepidity, generosity and honour? The Scriptures tell us 'righteousness
exalteth a Nation.'"
British Statesman Edmund Burke told the
National Assembly, 1791: "What is
liberty without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils...madness
without restraint. Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion
to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."
American Minute with Bill Federer
Did Coolidge predict Gov't abuse? - 'having authority over everybody and being
responsible to nobody' By William J. Federer, American Minute - On MAY 15, 1926,
President Calvin Coolidge warned in a speech given in Williamsburg, Virginia at
the College of William and Mary: "But there is another...recent development...
the greatly disproportionate influence of organized minorities. 
