""A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word “darkness” on the walls of his cell." ~C.S. Lewis
"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late." ~Thomas Sowell
"One of the highly developed talents of President Barack Obama is the ability to say things that are demonstrably false, and make them sound not only plausible but inspiring." ~Thomas Sowell
"The killing of millions of innocents does not begin with the killing of one innocent. It begins with the idea that in the larger scheme of things it is permissible to kill one innocent person." ~Mike Adams
"We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide." ~Ronald Reagan
"It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense and can't see things as they are." ~G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown in The Oracle of the Dog
"A little science estranges man from God. A lot of science brings him back." ~Francis Bacon
"The only way you can get to know the truth of God is to stop trying to find out and by being born again." ~Oswald Chambers
"You can know about God by research; but until the researcher is ravished by what he sees, he doesn't know God for who he really is." ~John Piper
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand." ~Milton Friedman
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!" ~Barry Goldwater
"Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred." ~Jacques Barzun
"In the real world of American democracy, social and economic divisions are between the Cans and the Can-Nots, the Dos and the Do-Nots, the Wills and the Will-Nots. The vast majority of wealthy Americans, as a matter of empirical fact, are first generation wealthy and have created whatthey possess. In the process of creating wealth for themselves, they have created wealth for hundreds and sometimes thousands and sometimes hundreds of thousands of others. But to describe the wealthy as wealth earners and wealth creators - that is, to describe them accurately - is to explode the whole religious fantasy that gives meaning to radical lives, inspires the radicals’ war, and has been the source of the most repressive regimes and the greatest social disasters in the history of mankind." ~David Horowitz
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.” ~C.S. Lewis
"Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. … [I] hope we have once again reminded people that 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
"Brave men are vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. But these modern cowards are all crustaceans; their hardness is all on the cover and their softness is inside." ~G.K. Chesterton
"There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else." ~Teddy Roosevelt
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money." ~Alexis de Tocqueville
"Multiculturalism was conceived by the Western Elites not to celebrate all cultures but to deny their own: it is, thus, the real suicide bomb." ~Mark Steyn
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." ~George Bernard Shaw
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." ~William Pitt
"When people begin to say that the material circumstances have alone created the moral circumstances, then they have prevented all possibility of serious change." ~G.K. Chesterton
"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again." ~Will and Ariel Durant
Founding Fathers
"Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution." ~James Madison
"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but by his wrath?" ~Thomas Jefferson, 1781
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." ~Samuel Adams
"The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." ~James Madison
"If ye love wealth better than liberty,the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." ~Samuel Adams
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ~John Adams
"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." ~First U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Jay
"No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent." ~First U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Jay
"If the federal government is allowed to hold a monopoly on determining the extent of its own powers, we have no right to be surprised when it keeps discovering new ones." -Thomas Jefferson
"There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
-James Madison, speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 16, 1788
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt not covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free." -John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787
"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated." -Thomas Jefferson
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." ~James Madison
"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations." ~John Adams
