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"I assured the American people that I will remain firm and committed to fighting and winning the war on terror. We will deploy assets to defeat people before they come and hurt us. I believe that we are in a global war against an 'ism' that can be defeated, and must be defeated. One way you defeat them is to find them and bring them to justice. That's why we need good intelligence, the capacity to move quickly, a military that understands the stakes and is preparing the troops to meet the challenges. The other way is to spread freedom. And I believe that...free societies will be peaceful societies."

"We have seen our vulnerability -- and we have seen its deepest
source. For as long as whole regions of the world simmer in resentment and tyranny -- prone to ideologies that feed hatred and excuse murder -- violence will gather, and multiply in destructive power, and cross the most defended borders, and raise a mortal threat. There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant, and that is the force of human freedom. We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. ... Today, America speaks anew to the peoples of the world. All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you. ... The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world." --President George W. Bush, Inauguration Day 2005, an "American Revolutionary" as Time magazine noted when naming President Bush its 2004 "Person of the Year."

"Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans." --Ted Kennedy, D-Chappaquiddick


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"America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one. From the day of our Founding, we have proclaimed that every man and woman on this earth has rights, and dignity, and matchless value, because they bear the image of the Maker of Heaven and earth. Across the generations we have proclaimed the imperative of self-government, because no one is fit to be a master, and no one deserves to be a slave. Advancing these ideals is the mission that created our Nation. It is the honorable achievement of our fathers."

President George W. Bush - Inaugural Address - 2005

" You do well to wish to learn our arts and our ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. Congress will do everything they can to assist you in this wise intention." - George Washington once told a gathering of Delaware elders.

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"I cannot tell you how inspired and sustained and comforted I am by the fact that millions of people, many of whom I will never see, are praying for me. It's one of the most unique aspects of the presidency. I don't know any other world leaders who can say that about the people of their country, which speaks volumes about America."     --President George W. Bush

"Two tidal waves of death: the tsunami late in December and 32
years of massive abortion since the Roe vs. Wade decision on Jan. 22, 1973. Television images and Internet blogs have brought home to Americans the reality of one disaster. Ultrasound images have shown many young women and their boyfriends the reality of lives that can be saved. We have fewer excuses than we once had for not loving our neighbors as ourselves, no matter how far away or how small they are. But what happens when we still lack vision? We have a license to kill unborn children (and young born ones) because they lack 'higher mental capacities,' according to Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer. Hmmm. Maybe T-ball players are useless because they lack higher baseball capacities. Maybe acorns are worthless because we can't make oak furniture from them."    --Marvin Olasky

"God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed. ... If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world."   --U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

Abraham Lincoln, June 16, 1858

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."


Jesus Christ Mat 12:25  And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

"It is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all
mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our
own."      --Benjamin Franklin

"Since terrorists are pouring into Iraq in response to calls from
international terrorist networks, the number of those who are killed is especially important, for these are people who will no longer be around to launch more attacks on American soil.  Iraq has become a magnet for enemies of the United States, a place where they can be killed wholesale, thousands of miles away."  --Thomas Sowell

"Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai...but he has never improved on God's law. ... They are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law."  --Cecil B. DeMille

"A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state. If you practice a religion, whether you're Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or guided by some other faith, then your private life will be influenced by a sense of moral obligation, and so, too, will your public life. One affects the other. The churches of America do not exist by the grace of the state; the churches of America are not mere citizens of the state. The churches of America exist apart; they have their own vantage point; their own authority. Religion is its own realm; it makes its own claims. We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. We command no worship. We mandate no belief. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave it bereft of belief. All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief, to apply moral teaching to public questions."   --Ronald Reagan

"The life of Ted Kennedy is the key to understanding the post-1968 liberalism that infests his Party. Kennedy is a 72 year-old boy who never held a real (private sector) job. He entered the United States Senate in 1962 at age 30 (based on his record of being born a Kennedy), and remained there for the past 42 years. The expression limousine liberal was coined with Ted Kennedy in mind. He's never had to worry about meeting a payroll, keeping a job, paying a mortgage, balancing a household budget, educating his kids or saving for his retirement. His idea of helping ordinary Americans is raising their taxes, increasing the size and scope of government and forcing weird social experiments on us. His political career seems to be dedicated to making sure that no one in the middle class will ever be able to achieve the prosperity of the Kennedy clan. ... Still Kennedy and his allies are convinced that they have an intuitive understanding of the common man, a psychic connection to him (the political equivalent of a Vulcan mind-meld), which allows them to act as his champions even while the average American repeatedly disavows them. If you hold power long enough in a one-party state -- North Korea, Cuba, Massachusetts -- you can believe
anything."           --Don Feder

"The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes."      ---  George Washington

"Condolezza Rice's confirmation vote was a disgusting sight and indicative of who the Democrats are --  they are lazy and they're cowards and I'm just hoping that the more they continue to act like that the more it will encourage Americans to run against them and put the U.S. back in the hands of the working class, where it belongs."    --Michael Moore


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"Families must continue to be the foundation of our nation.  Families -- not government programs -- are the best way to make sure our children are properly nurtured, our elderly are cared for, our cultural and spiritual heritages are perpetuated, our laws are observed and our values are preserved.  Thus it is imperative that our government's programs, actions, officials and social welfare institutions never be allowed to jeopardize the family.  We fear the government may be powerful enough to destroy our families; we know that it is not powerful enough to replace them. The New Republican Party must be committed to working always in the interest of the American family."    --Ronald Reagan

"For the West -- for America, the time has come to dare to show to the world that our civilized ideas, our traditions, our values, are not -- like the ideology and war machine of totalitarian societies -- just a facade of strength.  It is time for the world to know our intellectual and spiritual values are rooted in the source of all strength, a belief in a Supreme Being, and a law higher than our own."             --Ronald Reagan

"As I look back, I really believe that God was working in this
country and across this globe to achieve His purposes through Ronald Reagan. God's timetable was better than Dad's. Had my father won the presidency in 1976, I think there's a good chance the Berlin Wall would not have come down and the Cold War would not have ended. Why? Because a number of key players were not yet in place. One key player was Pope John Paul II, who would join with President Reagan in taking a stand against the 'evil empire' of Soviet Communism; he was not elected by the College of Cardinals until 1978. Czech dissident Vaclav Havel did not publish his influential essay 'The Power of the Powerless' until 1978. President Reagan's strongest European ally, Lady Margaret Thatcher, did not become prime minister of Great Britain until 1979. The occupation of the Gdansk shipyards in Poland, led by Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, did not take place until 1980. And Mikhail Gorbachev, who ushered in the era of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (reform), did not achieve office until 1985. Though Dad was disappointed to lose the nomination in 1976, he was right on schedule, according to God's timing. Dad won the election in 1980, exactly when God had planned. The pieces of the global puzzle fell into place, a hunger for freedom swept Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union imploded, the Berlin Wall toppled, the Cold War ended, and the world is a better place to live in -- all in God's good time."    --Michael Reagan

"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to
Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism."    --Nikita Khrushchev


"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."   --Norman Thomas

"Personal retirement accounts should be familiar to [members of
Congress], because you already have something similar, called the Thrift Savings Plan, which lets [you] deposit a portion of [your] paychecks into any of five different broadly-based investment funds. It's time to extend the same security, and choice, and ownership to young Americans."  --President George W. Bush
 

 
"Social Security is simply a tax. Like all taxes, the money collected is spent immediately as general revenues to fund the federal government. The Social Security trust fund does not exist, and Social Security 'surpluses' are nothing more than an accounting ledger showing that contributions exceeded benefits paid for a given calendar year --  not that the excess was put aside. ... Allowing people to opt out of Social Security would force the federal government to admit it has been stealing money from Social Security for decades. ... No matter what politicians promise, Social Security reform will not change the fact that your money is taken from your paycheck and sent to Washington,
where it will be spent."     --Rep. Ron Paul

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."    --William Boetcker

"Our nation will someday soon reawaken to acknowledge what makes America such a prosperous nation. It was the recognition of God's ultimate authority, affirmed for us by our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence, that helped us to overcome the terrible injustice of slavery, the devastation of the Great Depression, and the grave threat of communism. And it is the sincere belief in this single ideal that will see us through our current state of social insecurity."     --Gary Bauer

"When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest at all.  When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased."    --C. S. Lewis

"Culture has moved beyond objective truth. Science has effectively declared itself god and scientists are its high priests. What scientists say science can achieve is all that matters. Anyone who refuses to bow down to their pronouncements is labeled a heretic and must suffer the kind of denunciation, ostracism and rejection once reserved for what the old horror movies called 'mad scientists.' This is why the slippery slope analogy applies in cases such as stem cell research. Having abandoned an Author and definer of life, it quickly becomes possible and then probable that any value attached to a living thing -- particularly a human being -- is simply a matter of individual or societal whim. Such values, like a fluctuating stock market, may change at any moment and for any reason, or no reason. A society that readily tolerates 45 million legal abortions (and counting) and feels a need to 'do something' about the financial 'burden' of the sick and elderly is not likely to be morally aroused at the destruction of embryos, even for cloning and other experimental purposes."     --Cal Thomas

"The entire edifice of moral relativism, a foundation of leftist
ideology, is built on the notion of feelings deciding right and
wrong. ... The unprecedented support of liberals for radically redefining the basic institution of society, marriage and the family is another product of feelings -- sympathy for homosexuals. Thinking through the effects of such a radical redefinition on society and its children is not a liberal concern. ... For liberals, the entire worth of the human fetus is determined by the mother's feelings. If she feels the nascent human life she is carrying is worth nothing, it is worth nothing. If she feels it is infinitely precious, it is infinitely precious. ... Far more conservative positions are based on 'What is right?' rather than on 'How do I feel?' That is why a religious woman who is pregnant but does not wish to be is far less likely to have an abortion than a secular woman in the same circumstances. Her values are higher than her feelings. And that, in a nutshell, is what our culture war is about --  Judeo-Christian values versus liberal/leftist feelings."           --Dennis Prager

"The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide
what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch. ... The Constitution on this hypothesis is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. ... It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression...that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary;
working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped."

................Thomas Jefferson

"At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance."   ...............Thomas Jefferson

"Let the pulpit resound with the doctrine and sentiments of religious
liberty. Let us hear of the dignity of man's nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God. ... Let it be known that...liberties are not the grants of princes and parliaments."                          

--John Adams

"God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial he makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down."               --C. S. Lewis

"While the immediate task of vanquishing freedom's enemies will fall to our military men and women, all of us -- particularly those like you who understand the price of freedom -- will be called upon to strengthen our national resolve, and so, as we ask God's tender mercies on all those who have fallen, we ask also for His guidance and protection for all of us who remain to finish the task now before us. I thank the same God for America's veterans -- those of you who made us free and kept us free. I thank God for all you have done, and for all I know you will do again, to support peace and final victory."      --Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

"Religion has always been central to our national identity. Religious references do not violate the First Amendment, which was never intended to bar all religious expression or discussion from national discourse. James Madison himself, the author of the First Amendment, was sworn in with his left hand on the Bible. So was George Washington, and, I believe, every president since. The Ten Commandments provide the very foundation of our nation's legal code. They also make up the basis of the moral values that thankfully guide us in our everyday lives."    --Lawrence Kudlow

"I believe one major reason a lot of American kids became unmanageable brats and teenagers in the 1960s came from battle-wearied soldiers standing on Europe's shores. They awaited a ship to take them home after the WWII. They were so grateful to be going home alive, so grateful for the families or future families awaiting them, they made a promise:

'My kids are never going to have a tough life like the one I've just
lived. Things are going to be better for them.'

Unfortunately...they made life too easy for their children. It resulted in unchallenged kids, insecure, undisciplined youths. Kids need to be challenged. The only way to gain self-respect and a sense of self-reliance is to take a chance. ... We created a risk-free society so our kids didn't have the chance to face challenges. By doing so, we removed their opportunity to develop character -- and now we don't like the lack of character. We want them to be people we can trust. It is because our kids have had the chance to develop character removed from them that a large majority believe it is okay to cheat. That is our legacy to America's youth. How sad! Someone ought to give the senior citizens who thought sixties' escapism into drugs was cool -- the people who caused this problem -- a good spanking!"                        
                    --Marilyn Barnewall

"The long, twilight struggle against Islamo-fascism requires Civilization to deploy numerous weapons against this implacable foe. As usual, these will include intelligence, covert operations, and high-tech armaments. But another vital tool is language. How Americans and our allies speak and write about this conflict will influence when and how victory will come. We now face the most anti-Semitic enemy since Adolf Hitler and Josef Goebbels blew their brains out in Berlin in 1945. Militant Islam is the most bloodthirsty ideology since the Khmer Rouge exterminated one-third of Cambodia's people. The big difference, of course, is that Pol Pot had the good manners to keep his killing fields within his own borders, as awful as that was. Islamo-fascism, in contrast, is a worldwide phenomenon that already has touched this country and many of our allies. And yet Muslim extremists rarely have armies we can see, fighter jets we can knock from the sky, nor an easily identifiable headquarters, such as the Reich's Chancellery of the 1940s or the Kremlin of the Cold War."

--Deroy Murdock

"There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new
morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there
is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality. All
else is immorality."      --Theodore Roosevelt

"If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity."               --Daniel Webster

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"Caffeine can have serious side effects if we ingest too much. This
fact was first noticed in ancient Egypt when a group of workers, who were supposed to be making a birdbath, began drinking Egyptian coffee, which is very strong, and wound up constructing the pyramids."           --Dave Barry

(From The Library of Congress)

In CONGRESS,
SATURDAY, March 16, 1776.

IN times of impending calamity and distress; when the Liberties of America are imminently endangered by the secret machinations and open assaults of an insidious and vindictive Administration, it becomes the indispensible duty of these hitherto free and happy Colonies, with true penitence of heart, and the most reverent devotion, publickly to acknowledge the over ruling providence of God; to confess and deplore our offences against him; and to supplicate his interposition for averting the threatened danger, and prospering our strenuous efforts in the cause of Freedom, Virtue and Posterity.

The Congress therefore, considering the warlike preparations of the British Ministry to subvert our invaluable rights and privileges, and to reduce us by fire and sword, by the savages of the wilderness and our own domestics, to the most abject and ignominious bandage: Desirous, at the same time, to have people of all ranks and degrees, duly impressed with a solemn {Omitted text, 1w} of God's superintending providence, and of their duty devoutly to rely in all their lawful enterprizes of his aid and direction--do earnestly recommend, that FRIDAY, the seventeenth day of May next, be observed by the said Colonies as a day of HUMILIATION, FASTING, and PRAYER; that we may with united hearts confess and bewail our manifold sins and transgressions, and by a sincere, repentance and amendment of life, appease his righteous displeasure and through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain his pardon and forgiveness; humbly imploring his assistance to frustrate the cruel purposes of our unnatural enemies; and by inclining their hearts to justice and benevolence, prevent the further effusion of kindred blood. But if continuing deaf to the voice of reason and humanity, and inflexibly bent on desolation and war, they constrain us to repel their hostile invasions by open resistance, {Omitted text, 1w} it may please the Lord of Hosts, the God of Armies, to animate our Officers and Soldiers with invincible {Omitted text, 1w} to guard and protect them in the day of battle, and to crown the Continental arms by sea and land with victory and success: Earnestly beseeching him to bless our civil Rulers and the Representatives of the People in their several Assemblies and Conventions; to preserve and strengthen their Union, to inspire them with an ardent disinterested love of their Country; to give wisdom and stability to their Councils; and direct them to the most efficacious measures for establishing the Rights of America on the most honorable and permanent basis--that he would be graciously pleased to bless all his People in these Colonies with Health and Plenty, and grant that a spirit of incorruptible Patriotism and of pure undefiled Religion may unversally prevail; and this Continent be speedily restored to the blessings of Peace and Liberty, and enabled to transmit them inviolate to the latest Posterity. And it is recommended to Christians of all denominations to assemble for Public Worship, and abstain from servile Labour on the said Day...........By Order of Congress,
JOHN HANCOCK, President

(From The Library of Congress)

In CONGRESS,
NOVEMBER 1, 1777.

FORASMUCH as it is the indispensible duty of all men to adore the superintending providence of Almighty God; to acknowledge with gratitude their obligations to Him for benefits received; and to implore such farther blessings as they stand in need of: And it having pleased him in his abundant mercy, not only to continue to us the innumerable bounties of his common providence; but also to smile upon us, in the prosecution of a just and necessary war for the defence and establishment of our unalienable rights and liberties: Particularly in that he hath been pleased in so great a measure, to prosper the means used for the support of our troops, and to crown our arms with most signal success:

It is therefore recommended to the legislative or executive powers of these United States, to set apart THURSDAY, the eighteenth day of December next, for Solemn Thanksgiving and Praise: That at one time and with one voice, the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts, and consecrate themselves to the service of their Divine Benefactor: and that, together with their sincere acknowledgments and offerings, they may join the penitent confession of their sins, whereby they had forfeited every favor; and their humble and earnest supplications that it may please God through the merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of remembrance. That it may please him graciously to afford his blessing on the Governments of these States respectively, and prosper the PUBLIC Council of the whole. To inspire our commanders both by land and sea, and all under them, with that wisdom and fortitude which may render them fit instruments, under the providence of Almighty God, to secure for these United States, the greatest of all human blessings, INDEPENDENCE and PEACE. That it may please him, to prosper the trade and manufactures of the people, and the labour of the husbandman, that our land may yet yield its increase. To take schools and seminaries of education, so necessary for cultivating the principles of true liberty, virtue and piety, under his nurturing hand: and to prosper the means of religion, for the promotion and enlargement of that kingdom which consisteth "IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE AND JOY IN THE Holy Ghost."

And it is further recommended, that servile labour, and such recreation as, though at other times innocent, may be unbecoming the purpose of this appointment, may be omitted on so solemn an occasion.

By order of CONGRESS,
HENRY LAURENS, President.

"We have this day restored the Sovereign to whom alone men ought to be obedient. From the rising to the setting of the sun may His kingdom come." - Samuel Adams ("Firebrand of the Revolution"), after signing the Declaration of Independence

(My Note:  What would happen if we had politicians like this today?)

"Let us enter on this important business under the idea that we are Christians on whom the eyes of the world are now turned. ... Let us in the first place..... humbly and penitently implore the aid of the Almighty God whom we profess to serve. Let us earnestly call and beseech Him for Christ's sake to preside in our councils." - Elias Boudnot - President of the Continental Congress

(My Note:  What would happen if we had politicians like this today?)

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." - George Washington

(My Note:  What would happen if we had politicians like this today?)

"Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christ?"

"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were.... the general principles of Christianity."

"Why is it friends and fellow citizens that we are here assembled? Why is it that next to the birthday of the Savior of the World that our joyous and most venerated festival occurs on this day? Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior, that it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation?"

By John Quincy Adams (1830s - 6th President of the United States)

(My Note:  What would happen if we had politicians like this today?)

"It is extremely important to our nation , in a political as well as religious view , that all possible authority and influence should be given to the scriptures, for these furnish the best principles of civil liberty , and the most effectual support of republican government. The principles of all genuine liberty , and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by it's authority. The man therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book may be accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer...." - Noah Webster

"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. 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

"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount....The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."          --General Omar Bradley

"We have to fix it or Rumsfeld may never retire." --President Bush, on Social Security, at the annual Gridiron Dinner
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"Oprah is so rich that I saw John Kerry proposing to her just an hour ago." --Chris Rock, at the Academy Awards

 ;D   ;D  Good one, especially on John Kerry.

"What is it that causes trouble in marriages?  It is amazing how many people don't seem to know.  Essentially, it is one thing: Sin!  I don't care whether it the sin of pride, hard-hearted unwillingness to forgive or to humble oneself or to admit mistakes, selfishness, lust, or whatever other sin of infidelity there might be, all of these are simply sins. The Word of God is the great cleansing water that washes away our sin and wears down the rough edges in our personalities, which makes us livable for other people."                 --Dr. D. James Kennedy

"A day of decision is upon us.  Whether it was the legalization
of abortion, the banning of school prayer, the expulsion of the 10
Commandments from public spaces, or the starvation of Terri Schiavo, decisions by the courts have not only changed our nation's course, but even led to the taking of human lives.  As the liberal, anti-Christian dogma of the left has been repudiated in almost every recent election, the courts have become the last great bastion for liberalism.  For years activist courts, aided by liberal interest groups like the ACLU, have been quietly working under the veil of the judiciary, like thieves in the night, to rob us of our Christian heritage and our religious freedoms.  Federal judges have systematically grabbed power, usurping the constitutional authority that resides in the other two branches of
government and, ultimately, in the American people."                   --Tony Perkins

THE FOUNDATION

"The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it." --James Madison



THE GIPPER

"To our mothers we owe our highest esteem, for it is from their gift of life that the flow of events begins that shapes our destiny.  A mother's love, nurturing and beliefs are among the strongest influences molding the development and character of our youngsters.  As Henry Ward Beecher wrote, 'What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin'." --Ronald Reagan

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"Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some
particular merit or excellence in humanity.  But of course it implies
just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity.  No creature
that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed.  They that are whole need not the physician.  Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it."    
               --C. S. Lewis

"If children prayed together, would they not understand what they have in common, and would this not, indeed, bring them closer, and is this not to be desired?  So, I submit to you that those who claim to be fighting for tolerance on this issue may not be tolerant at all. ...The churches of America do not exist by the grace of the state; the churches of America are not mere citizens of the state.  The churches of America exist apart; they have their own vantage point, their own authority.  Religion is its own realm; it makes its own claims.  We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever.  We command no worship.  We mandate no belief. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave it bereft of belief.  All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief, to apply moral teaching to public questions.  I submit to you that the tolerant society is open to and encouraging of all religions. And this does not weaken us; it strengthens us. ... You know, if we look back through history to all those great civilizations, those great nations that rose up to even world dominance and then deteriorated, declined, and fell, we find they all had one thing in common.  One of the significant forerunners of their fall was their turning away from their God. ... Without God, there is no virtue, because there's no prompting of the conscience.  Without God, we're mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive.  Without God, there is a coarsening of the society.  And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.  If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."      --Ronald Reagan

"We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.  I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were not concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter.  But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ."              

C. S. Lewis

At the risk of rerunning a quote (even though it deserves to be rerun):

"The nine most feared words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Ronald Reagan

JudgeNot,

 :D  Good one - I think that I actually remember him saying that. I liked President Reagan and really enjoyed listening to him talk.  Another one for the GIPPER.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Romans 11:33  O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

"The president and those who wish to see the Constitution restored to its 'original intent' need to reteach it if they are to overcome the liberal orthodoxy expressed by the late Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and echoed recently by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that 'the Constitution is what the judges say it is.'  Try that at the supermarket. Is a pound what the shopper says it is, or do scales, which rely on a standard, determine a pound's true weight? Would we get away with telling a police officer who pulls us over for speeding, 'I decided that 70 miles per hour is 55 for me'? Why, then, this constantly changing Constitution that is in the minds of liberals to be altered like a suit of clothes to fit the wearer, rather than a document to which all must conform if the general welfare is to be promoted? It is because those revisionists know they can't use the legislative process to ram through any of their social engineering ideas.... They know the people (with the possible exception of a majority in Massachusetts) would vote them out of office and so they turn to unelected judges, appointed for life, to do their ideological dirty work for them.  If the Constitution is to again be seen as a finished document that has been refinished in recent years, the president must foreswear any talk of 'moderation' and 'conciliation' in his choice of court nominees.  Truth cannot be moderated. ... The president owes the country an ideological battle, which he can win if he is willing to fight it. ... He should not only campaign for his nominee(s), he should act like a teacher, quoting the Federalist Papers and the Constitution and making his case that this great document served America well until some judges began tampering with it." --Cal Thomas

"abstinence works every time it's tried." When has abstinence created AIDS, STDs and unplanned pregnancies? Answer: NOT ONCE!"

Good one Dreamweaver!
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"What would happen if all these neutral nations...were with
one spontaneous impulse to do their duty...and were to stand
together...against aggression and wrong? At present their plight is lamentable; and it will become much worse. They bow humbly and in fear to...threats of violence. ... Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear...the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, ever more loudly, ever more widely. It will spread to the South; it will spread to the North. There is no chance of a speedy end except through united action."    --Sir Winston Churchill

"In this era of hyper-sensitivity and political-correctness, words no longer have meaning. Those who are good are too often portrayed as evil; indefensibly wicked acts are made less so by the way they are described. Words like 'hero' and 'hatred' have lost definition. In the midst of a struggle for survival, the inability to discern attackers from allies, friends from foes and heroes from cowards is potentially catastrophic. ... The word 'hero' no longer means one who has willingly put himself in grave physical jeopardy for the benefit of another. Heroes are people who overcome evil by doing good at great personal risk. Through self-sacrifice, fortitude and action -- whether they succeed or fail -- heroes provide a moral and ethical framework -- and inspiration -- for the rest of us. Unfortunately, our modern definition of 'hero' has been corrupted to include all manner of people who do not warrant the title. The athlete who just set a new sports record isn't a hero. Nor is the 'daring' movie star or even the adventurer out to be the first solo climber to scale Mt. Everest. They may be brave -- but they don't meet the definition
of a hero, for whatever they achieve benefits only 'self.' Real heroes are selfless." --Oliver North

"There are those who believe that men in uniform are somehow
associated with starting wars.  That's like saying policemen cause
crime. ... Keeping the peace is the most important problem we face. And I believe that because young men...are willing to put on the uniform and endure the rigors of military life, peace is more secure."   --Ronald Reagan

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.  It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them.

The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore to resolve to conquer or die.

General George Washington
general order to the Continental Army
July 2, 1776

Too much reasoning is a great distraction. Those who reason the indevout wise quench the inward spirit as the wind extinguishes a candle. After being with them for awhile, we perceive our hearts dry, and our mind off its centre. - François Fénelon

God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.  -  Matthew Henry

1) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. ..........Mark Twain

2) I 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

3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. ..........George Bernard Shaw

4) A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. ..........G. Gordon Liddy

5) Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. ..........James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

6) Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. ..........Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown Univ.

7) Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ..........P. J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

8) Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. ..........Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

9) 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)

10) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. ..........Will Rogers

11) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. ..........P.J. O'Rourke

12) In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one group of the citizens to give to the other. ..........Voltaire (1764)

13) Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ..........Pericles (430 B.C.)

14) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. ..........Mark Twain (1866)

15) Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. ..........Ronio (2005)

16) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. ..........Ronald Reagan

17) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. ..........Winston Churchill

18) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. ..........Mark Twain

19) The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. .........Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

20) There is no distinctly native American criminal class... save Congress. ..........Mark Twain

21) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. ..........Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

22) A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. ..........Thomas Jefferson

 :D   :D  Good ones - a great addition to my quotes collection. Thanks!

British corespondent, who himself was an imigrant to England, was on Fox News. When asked about Muslims in England in regards to the recent bomb attacks by suicide bombers he made the comment (paraphrased):

Britain is a multi-racial multi-cultural society. The Muslims can fit in or fly out.

;D

" You do well to wish to learn our arts and our ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. Congress will do everything they can to assist you in this wise intention." - George Washington

" Let...statesmen and patriots unite their endeavors to renovate the age by...educating their little boys and girls...and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system." -  Samuel Adams

"History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion...and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern." -  Benjamin Franklin

"Only one adequate plan has ever appeared in the world, and that is the Christian dispensation." - John Jay, ORIGINAL CHIEF-JUSTICE U.S. SUPREME COURT

"The United States of America were no longer Colonies. They were an independent nation of Christians." - John Qunicy Adams

God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies grey and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to Your honour and glory. - Augustine

Jesus Christ is not valued at all until He is valued above all. - Augustine

This is not as much a worthy quote, as a worthy reminder:

"My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism."
Karl Marx

Remember!  A HUGE percentage of the world's population are Marxist.  The ACLU comes to mind...

JudgeNot,

Brother, this is a bad reminder that's been shoved into the face of every Christian more and more frequently. I was just giving thanks that JESUS wins at HIS appointed time and I pray that time is soon.

Love In Christ,
Tom

John 14:16-18 ASV  And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.  I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you.

It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that by its soundness and wellbeing he may be enabled to labor... for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfilling the law of Christ. - Martin Luther


The first service one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love of God begins in listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for our brother when we learn to listen to him. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We did indeed know much about your preparedness. We knew that probably every second home in your country contained firearms. We knew that your country actually had state championships for private citizens shooting military rifles. We were not fools to set foot in such quicksand.
A Japanese Admiral explains why Japan didn't invade the US mainland in WWII

This quote makes an anti-2nd Ammendment liberal foam at the mouth.
That's why I like it.  ;D

Rich is the person who has a praying friend. - Janice Hughes

How can we be strangers, if we both follow Christ? - Anonymous

Never believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary — and that God is listening while you tell it. - William Penn

Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers [meeting] together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. - A.W. Tozer

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco

"So we are we left with Judeo-Christian values and secular left values. The latter, as noted, hold sway among the world's elites.  But they are personally so unfulfilling and morally so confused that they cannot work.  Western Europe will hopefully awaken to this fact as its socialist economies fail and as it realizes that you cannot fight faith (radical Islam) with no faith (secularism). ... The Judeo-Christian value system is not only the best value system for humanity; it is the only viable one.  If we do not promote it, moral chaos will ensue. And we can't promote it if we don't know what it is."   --Dennis Prager

"I think the so-called conservative is today what was, in the classic sense, the liberal.  The classical liberal, during the Revolutionary time, was a man who wanted less power for the king and more power for the people.  He wanted people to have more say in the running of their lives and he wanted protection for the God-given rights of the people. He did not believe those rights were dispensations granted by the king to the people, he believed that he was born with them.  Well, that today is the conservative." --Ronald Reagan

Come work for the Lord. The work is hard, the hours are long, and the pay is low, but the retirement benefits are out of this world. - Anonymous

"If Barbara Bush gets her hands on John Kerry, he might get another Purple Heart." - Former President George H.W. Bush, telling an audience that his wife is angry about Kerry's attacks on her son. ;D Some how, I just couldn't help it! ;D

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the acts. - Will Rogers
Guess I'm in a humorus mood today. :D

 :D

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time--a tremendous whack. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it,
derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned
and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates,
their pleasure, and their blood." --John Adams

"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is
Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda... Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated."   ---Bertrand Russell

(My Note:  WOW! - This is TRUE!!)
 

"There's a change happening in America. Realignment is real. What the American people see is that the other party just keeps going in circles. And that's just like...when you get lost in the woods; if every time you come to a decision you lean to the left, you will wind up going in circles. Now, in contrast, we're going forward with confidence and with gusto. Gusto---that's Republican for vigor... One of the reasons the American people have turned to us is that we don't waver from our commitment to do what's necessary to keep our country safe and to secure the blessings of liberty for our children and our children's children."   ---Ronald Reagan

I don't care how many times this quote has been posted - it's time to do so again:

"Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants."
William Penn

Truely yours,
JudgeNot

aka 'Taliban Jim'   ::)  ::)

Whoa! Good one Phil.
How applicable is THAT today?

Amen JudgeNot and Phil121!

I love both quotes, and we do need to hear them frequently.

Brother Jim, curiosity is killing me. Has someone tried to tag you with "Taliban Jim"?  :D

Love In Christ,
Tom

Proverbs 24:3-4 NASB  By wisdom a house is built, And by understanding it is established; And by knowledge the rooms are filled With all precious and pleasant riches.

Bro Tom -
No one one on this board has tagged me that I am aware of.  (The liberals who visit us here are generally very polite - I hope they stay - it's entertaining and thought provoking having them with us.)  But just as I am a proud, dues paying member of Hillary's "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy", I must also be part of the religious right so often compared to the Taliban by the leftist marooooons.  It's actually another badge I wear proudly when correctly equated to my unshakable belief that Jesus Christ is, indeed, who He says He is - which He is....
 ;D

I have a confession to make - liberals may sometimes make me feel superior... particularly when they believe that to win a debate they must rely on the definition of "is" being a variable. :-X

Lord - grant me humility. I ask you, Lord, for the strength You showed as You cleared the temple of the money changers.
Amen!
 :)

JudgeNot,

 ;D   ;D   ;D   ;D   ;D

ROFL - Brother, you're killin' me.

We are both probably moderate conservatives, but we are most certainly Christians first, so that makes us very dangerous people.  :D  YES! - I enjoy being a dangerous person, and I plan to remain a dangerous person for the rest of my life.

Maybe we can become missionaries and teachers for the ACLU during our retirement years. We can teach the GOSPEL and American History if we can catch them.  :D

Love In Christ,
Tom

Isaiah 48:17 NASB  Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, Who leads you in the way you should go.

Confronted with a cancer or a slum the Pantheist can say, "If you could only see it from the divine point of view, you would realize that this also is God." The Christian replies, "Don't talk ... nonsense." - C. S. Lewis

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 A chasm is opening between the men who believe their Bibles and the men who are prepared for an advance upon Scripture. Inspiration and speculation cannot long abide in peace. Compromise there can be none. We cannot hold the inspiration of the Word, and yet reject it; we cannot believe in the atonement and deny it; we cannot hold the doctrine of the fall and yet talk of the evolution of spiritual life from human nature; we cannot recognize the punishment of the impenitent and yet indulge the "larger hope." One way or the other we must go. Decision is the virtue of the hour. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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The Gospel is not a new law. It is not a code of morals or ethics. It is not a creed to be accepted. It is not a system of religion to be adhered to. It is the good news that God will forgive and accept any person who trusts His provision of the crucified and risen Christ as the answer to their rebellion and sin. - Anonymous

ROFL ....  I think you just tagged yourself.

Welcome to the land of the tagged.

 ;) ;) :D :D ;D ;D

Well at least I've never been tagged here. Least to my knowledge. ;D
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One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory. - Jerry Bridges
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I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God. - Elisabeth Elliot

When we choose to forgive the victory is attainable. When bad things happen, good CAN come out of it! Romans 8:28 declares it is so! My life declares it is so and I am not alone in that statement. So many people have looked evil in the face and said, "I will find good in this." Some times the evil and bad things are changed or converted or whatever and sometimes it is US that is changed. But ALL things work for good and can bring about change for the good. - Elizabeth Fabiani

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If your reputation is perfectly intact on every front, if you never irritate anyone, if you never make a stir, you might be doing something wrong - or more likely, you're not doing something right. "Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for in the same way their fathers used to treat the false prophets" (Luke 6:26). The Bible has a crystal clear promise: All who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution" (2 Tim. 3:12). If we never experience persecution, if we never make a single soul angry (as Christ often did), something is probably wrong. - R Terry

Ism, shows how well he does with the english laguage, he forgot the L and A

"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him."
- G.W. Bush, 9/13/01

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

"I never slept with that...woman!"
Billy Clinton
The father of progressive morality

"We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in Sept. 11." [President Bush, 9/17/03]

<snicker>
 :-X

A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers

        * "The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it means now."
          -- South Carolina v. United States, 199 U.S. 437, 448 (1905)

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength
from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto
death."          ---Thomas Paine

"We all share the love of peace, but our sons and daughters must learn two lessons men everywhere and in every time have had to learn; that the price of freedom is dear but not nearly so costly as the loss of freedom---and that the advance and continuation of civilization depend on those values for which men have always been willing to die."       ---Ronald Reagan

"You can't say you love your country and hate your government."
Bill Clinton, 1995

I could now go into a long-winded tirade concerning the hypocrisy of the left.  But I'll stifle myself.  

Those who have ears let them hear.  

"YOU CAN'T SUPPORT YOUR TROOPS AND STILL HATE WHAT THEY ARE DOING" The U.S. Military Personell.

I can't think of a better quote, then this today.   :'(

"Are you guys ready? "Let's Roll !" by Todd Beamer, 32, from Cranbury, NJ
Died 9/11/01 Shanksville, Pa.  

To those who fought back, and were the first to fight terrorism and die. May God Bless Flight 93.

Dreamweaver,

Brother Bob, that's an awesome picture that I will add to my Navy collection. I don't know which aircraft carrier that is, but I've stood on the deck of the Nimitz and taken a tour of it. It was and is awesome. I'm biased because that is the carrier my son served on, but I think that anyone would be amazed at the size and capability of a Nimitz Class aircraft carrier.

I also love he quote, "Let's Roll." It's now recognized as a term of extreme respect and courage by people who know they are going forward, facing death for the safety and preservation of others. It actually means "I might die for what I believe in, but I will do it with pride, dignity, honor, and backbone as generations before me have done." Folks like this are the ones who paid for our freedoms and safety. Nothing should ever be done to disrespect them or their families. I salute them in the same way that I salute the Flag. In fact, the Flag is representative of those who fought, bled, and died for what every American enjoys - FREEDOM!!

Love In Christ,
Tom

Psalms 27:1-3 NASB  A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the defense of my life; Whom shall I dread? When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh, My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell. Though a host encamp against me, My heart will not fear; Though war arise against me, In spite of this I shall be confident.

That is the USS BELLEAU WOOD LHA 3. It is a Tarawa class helicopter carrier. It is quite a bit smaller than the Nimitz or Enterprise. I have never been on board her but I do have that picture hanging on my wall already.

"Let's Roll" has been a well used term through out the Military for many, many years. It was brought out in the publics eye by Todd Beamer making me wonder if he wasn't at least prior Military.


Amen!

Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
- Red Buttons
 :)

 ;D   ;D   ;D  ROFL

 

"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

(My Note:  This quote should hit the people of any country turning away from God right between the eyes. Only a nation whose God is the LORD will be blessed.)

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is big
enough to take away everything you have." ---President Gerald Ford


"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and
complex---but Congress can." ---Cullen Hightower

Confronted with a cancer or a slum the Pantheist can say, "If you could only see it from the divine point of view, you would realize that this also is God." The Christian replies, "Don't talk ... nonsense." - C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis


Someone once asked Billy Graham, "If Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?" To this the famous preacher replied, "With so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives." - Billy Graham

"The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of
the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of
English-speaking peoples, which has been won by incalculable
sacrifice, and which they must preserve so long as they hope to
live as free men." ---Robert Lafollette, Sr.


"No where in the scripture has God ever assured anyone, baptized
or not, of a carefree, no conflict existence... When (not if)
the trials come, we can be certain that they will reveal our
courage, call, commitment and convictions... Regardless of how
disheartening the difficulties can be, they should not send us
into a tailspin. Rather, they should bring out the best in the
believer. They can, if played correctly, bring us back to the
biblical basics of faith, hope and love." ---Doug Giles

"I was a Democrat once...for a long time, a large part of my
life. But in those days, its leaders didn't belong to the 'blame
America first' crowd. Its leaders were men like Harry Truman, who understood the challenges of our times. They didn't reserve all their indignation for America. They knew the difference between freedom and tyranny and they stood up for one and damned the other. To all the good Democrats who respect that tradition...and I hope there are many...you're not alone. We're asking you to come walk with us down the new path of hope and opportunity, and we'll make it a bipartisan salvation of our country." ---Ronald Reagan

A DAILY PRAYER OF OUR FIRST PRESIDENT

"Almighty God…I yield thee humble and hearty thanks that thou has preserved me from the danger of the night past, and brought me to the light of the day, and the comforts thereof, a day which is consecrated to thine own service and for thine own honor. Let my heart, therefore, Gracious God, be so affected with the glory and majesty of it, that I may not do mine own works, but wait on thee, and discharge those weighty duties thou requirest of me.

Give me grace to hear thee calling on me in thy word, that it may be wisdom, righteousness, reconciliation and peace to the saving of the soul in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Grant that I may hear it with reverence, receive it with meekness, mingle it with faith, and that it may accomplish in me, Gracious God, the good work for which thou has sent it. Bless my family, kindred, friends and country, be our God and guide this day and for ever for His sake, who lay down in the Grave and arose again for us, Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen."

--From the Prayer Journal of George Washington

"The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained."
 
-- George Washington

"All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed
frequent instances of superintending providence in our favor. To
that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in
peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity.
And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine
that we no longer need his assistance? I have lived, Sir, a
long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs
I see of this truth-that God governs in the affairs of men.
And if a sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice,
is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?""

-- Benjamin Franklin (To Colleagues at the Constitutional
Convention)

The Federalist Patriot
Founders' Quote Daily

"No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain
these blessings than United America.  Wondrously strange, then,
and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass."

-- George Washington (letter to Benjamin Lincoln, 29 June 1788)

Reference: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (403)

(My Note: This one speaks volumes. It makes me sad when I think about our nation turning its back on GOD and departing from HIS ways.)

The Federalist Patriot
Founders' Quote Daily

"It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted.
Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained.  If, to
please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?  Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair.  The event is in the hand of God. "

-- George Washington (as quoted by Gouverneur Morris in Farrand's Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, 25 March 1787)

Reference: George Washington and the New Nation, James Flexner (116-7)

(My Note:  I was just thinking about how wonderful it would be if all of our leaders went back to this type of thinking. There is no way to defend much of their work. I would also question how many of our legislators pray about what they do and what they say.)

"About the time of the end, a body of men will be raised up, who will turn their attention to the prophecies, in the midst of much clamor and opposition." - Sir Isaac Newton

The Federalist Patriot
Founders' Quote Daily

"It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping GOD in the manner most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship."

-- John Adams (Thoughts on Government, 1776)

Reference: The Works of John Adams, Charles Adams, ed., 221.

(My Note:  Any casual student of American History, even a beginner, should have no problem at all in determining that the modern concept of Separation of Church and State is and always has been nothing but a lie! It is an invented lie that doesn't exist, and it never did exist, but it has been repeated so many times now by folks like the ACLU that many Americans actually believe the twisted and manufactured lie of Separation of Church and State! All it is and all it's ever been is an invention of activist judges WHO ARE AND HAVE BEEN VIOLATING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS!! All but the last 50 years of this nation's history proves it is a lie, AND THE JUDGES WHO ISSUED THE OPINION KNEW IT WAS A LIE!!!!!!

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion…Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people . It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." (President John Adams. October 11, 1798. Address to the Military.)



President John Quincy Adams

"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this, it connected in one indissoluble bond, principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity." (July 4, 1821.)




"The original version (of the First Amendment) proposed in the Senate on September 3, 1789, stated, 'Congress shall not make any law establishing any religious denomination.' Their second version stated, 'Congress shall make no law establishing any particular denomination.' The third version was very similar, 'Congress shall make no law establishing any particular denomination in preference to others.' The final version passed on that day declared, 'Congress shall make no law establishing religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.'…According to their records, the word 'religion' was interchangeable with 'denomination.'" (pp. 4-5. The Foundations of American Government. WallBuilder Press: Aledo, TX. 1993)

Patrick Henry

"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."

"To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the
world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his
creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature,
may be considered as perfectly free from all restraints of law
and government, appears to a common understanding altogether
irreconcilable.  Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced
a very dissimilar theory.  They have supposed that the deity,
from the relations we stand in to himself and to each other, has
constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is indispensably
obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution
whatever.  This is what is called the law of nature.... Upon this
law depend the natural rights of mankind."

-- Alexander Hamilton

The Federalist Patriot
Founders' Quote Daily

"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of
Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits,
and humbly to implore his protection and favors."

-- George Washington (Thanksgiving Proclamation, 3 October 1789)

Reference: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (543)

The Federalist Patriot
Founders' Quote Daily

"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of
nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."

-- Thomas Jefferson (Rights of British America, 1774)

Reference: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Lipscomb and Bergh,
eds., 1:209.

(My Note:  The laws of nature means the Laws of God or Rights given by God.)

The Federalist Patriot
Founders' Quote Daily

"The law of nature and the law of revelation are both Divine: they flow, though in different channels, from the same adorable source. It is indeed preposterous to separate them from each other."

-- James Wilson (of the Law of Nature, 1804)

Reference: The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, Wilson, ed.,
vol. 1 (120)

(My Note:  Again, the laws of nature means the Laws of God or Rights given by God.)

"Terrorists are also winning the psychological warfare, partly because the jihadists are unified behind a goal and we often are not. They want territory and they want to kill 'infidels.' American leftists want 'peace,' without realizing that peace is a byproduct of defeating evil. The left also wants to use the war for partisan political gain and will seek to deprive President Bush of any credit for victory because it could benefit him politically. How sick is that?"  — Cal Thomas

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book. - Abraham Lincoln    

Hold on to your hats for this quote, folks:

“Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever!”
Jesus Christ

AMEN brother! :D

JudgeNot, I must add a second AMEN! Brother, it's great to see you back on the forum. We missed you.

Love In Christ,
Tom

John 17:11 NASB  "I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are.

"We pray for the military families who mourn the loss of loved ones. We hold them in our hearts—and we honor the memory of every fallen soldier, sailor, airman, Coast Guardsman, and Marine. One of those fallen heroes is a Marine Corporal named Jeff Starr, who was killed fighting the terrorists in Ramadi earlier this year. After he died, a letter was found on his laptop computer. Here's what he wrote, he said, 'If you're reading this, then I've died in Iraq. I don't regret going. Everybody dies, but few get to do it for something as important as freedom. It may seem confusing why we are in Iraq, it's not to me. I'm here helping these people, so they can live the way we live. Not to have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators. Others have died for my freedom, now this is my mark'."    —President George W. Bush

"Suppressing the language, symbols, or customs of Christians in a predominantly Christian society is not inclusive. It's insulting. It's discriminatory, too. Hanukkah menorahs are never referred to as 'holiday lamps' —not even the giant menorahs erected in Boston Common and many other public venues each year by Chabad, the Hasidic Jewish outreach movement. No one worries that calling the Muslim holy month of Ramadan by its name—or even celebrating it officially, as the White House does with an annual 'iftaar' dinner — might be insensitive to non-Muslims. In this tolerant and open-hearted nation, religious minorities are not expected to keep their beliefs out of sight or to squelch their traditions lest someone, somewhere, take offense. Surely the religious majority shouldn't be expected to either."     —Jeff Jacoby

"Discount if you will (as fashionable anti-Americanism does) the Statue of Liberty as ostentatious self-advertising or perhaps a relic of an earlier, more pure America. But as you walk the streets of Washington, it is harder to discount America's quiet homage to foreign liberators — statues built decades apart without self-consciousness and without any larger architectural (let alone political) plan. They have but one thing in common: They share America's devotion to liberty. Liberty not just here but everywhere. Indeed, liberty for its own sake. America has long proclaimed this principle, but in the post-9/11 era, it has pursued it with unusual zeal and determination... This is not for show. It is from the heart, the heart of a people conceived in liberty and still believing in liberty. How can they not? It is written in stone all around them."    —Charles Krauthammer

"In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God." -  James Agee

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. - Ronald Reagan

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. - Ronald Reagan

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' - Ronald Reagan

Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people,  armed in the Holy cause of Liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
     Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battle for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.…
     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! - Patrick Henry

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. - George Washington

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. - George Washington

The rights of the colonists as Christians … may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.… - Samuel Adams  

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. "  

"He that would live in peace & at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees. "

"The noblest question in the world is 'What Good may I do in it?'"

"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power."

"Wish not so much to live long as to live well. "

"Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices. "
 
All by Benjamin Franklin

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.  ~Thomas Paine

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.  ~Napoleon Bonaparte

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.  ~Abraham Lincoln

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.  ~Dick Cheney

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.  ~Thomas Paine

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.  ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live, in his death, he is a sacrifice satisfying for our sins; in his resurrection, a conqueror; in his ascension, a king; in his intercession, a high priest. - Martin Luther

"Let us thank God for life and the blessings He's put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year. Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives, and let us resolve to face the challenges of the new year holding that conviction firmly in our hearts. That, after all, is our greatest strength and our greatest gift as Americans."   —Ronald Reagan

Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. - Red Buttons
Now then to more serious notes;

It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that by its soundness and wellbeing he may be enabled to labor... for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfilling the law of Christ. - Martin Luther


The first service one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love of God begins in listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for our brother when we learn to listen to him. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave."       —Thomas Stonewall Jackson

Wow! Good homeschooling stuff through here! Thanks guys!

This one doesn't really fit in the political area but I love it!

You'll never realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you've got.
      -- Mother Theresa

The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe,
a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests.
But it is a personal, intimate thing too.
God does not love populations, He loves people.
He loves not masses, but men. - A. W. Tozer

"When you insist upon legal protection for all human life, you're simply being true to our most basic principles and convictions as Americans. We'll continue to work together with Members of the Congress to overturn the tragedy of Roe versus Wade. By your presence today, you reaffirm the self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence. Each year remarkable advances in prenatal medicine bring even more dramatic confirmation of what common sense has told us all along: that the child in the womb is simply what each of us once was, a very young, very small, dependent, and very vulnerable live member of the human family... Our nation's affirmation of the sacredness of all human life must begin with respect for our most basic civil right: the right to life." —Ronald Reagan

"America was born in the midst of a great revolution sparked by oppressive taxation. There was something about the American character—open, hard-working and honest—that rebelled at the very thought of taxes that were not only heavy but unfair... But slowly and subtly, surrendering first to this political pressure and then to that, our system of taxation has turned into something completely foreign to our nature—something complicated, unfair and, in a fundamental sense, un-American. Well, my friends, the time has come for a second American revolution." —Ronald Reagan

The Church Dare Not Have an Influence

In his penetrating book The First Circle, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the
famous Russian author who defected to America, makes an interesting
observation about how the Russian authorities handle the church. He writes:

"No one stops them from ringing their bells; they can break communion bread anyway they please. They can have their processions with the cross. But they will in no way allow them to have any connection with social or civic affairs."

The church was allowed to go through the motions;
it could have a presence, but it dare not have an influence.

Amen sister. There are many that want it that way here in America including 'Christians'.

We are all called upon by the highest obligations of duty to renew our thanks and our devotion to our Heavenly Parent, who has continued to vouchsafe to us the eminent blessings which surround us and who has so signally crowned the year with His goodness. If we find ourselves increasing beyond example in numbers, in strength, in wealth, in knowledge, in everything which promotes human and social happiness, let us ever remember our dependence for all these on the protecting and merciful dispensations of Divine Providence.
--John Tyler, December 7, 1841

The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily

"We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country's
Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we
now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the
aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate
and encourage us to great and noble Actions. "

-- George Washington (General Orders, 2 July 1776)

Reference: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (71)

"For too long, the world was paralyzed by the argument that terrorism could not be stopped until the grievances of terrorists were addressed. The complicated and heartrending issues that perplex mankind are no excuse for violent, inhumane attacks, nor do they excuse not taking aggressive action against those who deliberately slaughter innocent people." —Ronald Reagan

A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals. We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relations with God. We read our chapter, have our short devotions, and rush away, hoping to make up for our deep inward bankruptcy by attending another gospel meeting or listening to another thrilling story told by a religious adventurer lately returned from afar. The tragic results of this spirit are all about us. Shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies, the preponderance of the element of fun in gospel meetings, the glorification of men, trust in religious externalities, quasi-religious fellowships, salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit; these and such as these are the symptoms of an evil disease, a deep and serious malady of the soul.   - A. W. Tozer

"As much as we humans try to convince ourselves that we can determine the exact time when certain legislation should be passed, the reality is that it is God's time that is important. We pray that God will use the efforts of the people in South Dakota and other states to bring a full recognition of the personhood of every human being from its point of creation to its natural death." —American Life League President Judie Brown

"'One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.' That's a catchy phrase but also misleading. Freedom fighters do not need to terrorize a population into submission. Freedom fighters target the military forces and the organized instruments of repression keeping dictatorial regimes in power. Freedom fighters struggle to liberate their citizens from oppression and to establish a form of government that reflects the will of the people.  One has to be blind, ignorant, or simply unwilling to see the truth if he or she is unable to distinguish between those I just described and terrorists."  —  Ronald Reagan

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.  But, perhaps, one of the most common objections that they make is this, that our Lord's commands are not practicable, because contrary to flesh and blood; and consequently, that he is ‘an hard master, reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where he has not strewed.’   These we find were the sentiments entertained by that wicked and slothful servant mentioned in the 25th of St. Matthew; and are undoubtedly the same with many which are maintained in the present wicked and adulterous generation. (George Whitfield, Walking With God)

We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness. - Thomas Jefferson

Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart. - Jesus Christ

The 7 modern sins: politics without principles, pleasures
without conscience, wealth without work, knowledge without
character, industry without morality, science without humanity,
worship without sacrifice.


~Canon Frederic Donaldson

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians. - Thomas Jefferson


If Christians would really live the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today. - Mohandas Gandhi

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing. - Otto von Bismarck


There never was found in any age of the world, either philosopher or sect, or law, or discipline which did so highly exalt the public good as the Christian faith. - Francis Bacon

“Before prayer ever starts toward God;  before its petition is preferred, before its requests are made known – faith must have gone on ahead;  must have asserted its belief in the existence of God;  must have given its assent to the gracious truth that ‘God is a rewarder of those that diligently seek his face.’  This is the primary step in praying.  In this regard, while faith does not bring the blessing, yet it puts prayer in a position to ask for it, and leads to another step toward realization, by aiding the petitioner to believe that God is able and willing to bless.” - E. M. Bounds

"In our world there are innumerable groups and organizations with grievances, some justified, some not. Only a tiny fraction has been ruthless enough to try to achieve their ends through vicious and cowardly acts of violence upon unarmed victims. Perversely, it is often the terrorists themselves who prevent peacefully negotiated solutions. So, perhaps the first step in solving some of these fundamental challenges in getting to the root cause of conflict is to declare that terrorism is not an acceptable alternative and will not be tolerated." —Ronald Reagan

The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily

"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!"

-- Patrick Henry (Speech to the Virginia Convention, 23 March 1775)

Reference: Respectfully Quoted

God's answers are wiser than our prayers.
--Unknown

“Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.”
--Laurence J. Peter

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
--Billy Graham

Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.

... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)

Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mahomet, and Napoleon; without science and learning, He shed more light on things human and divine than all philosophers and schools combined; without the eloquence of schools, He spoke words of life such as never were spoken before or since, and produced effects which lie beyond the reach of any orator or poet; without writing a single line, He has set more pens in motion, and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art and sweet songs of praise, than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times. Born in a manger, and crucified as a malefactor, He now controls the destinies of the civilized world, and rules a spiritual empire which embraces one-third of the inhabitants of the globe. There never was in this world a life so unpretending, modest, and lowly in its outward form and condition, and yet producing such extraordinary effects upon all ages, nations, and classes of men. The annals of history produce no other example of such complete and astonishing success in spite of the absence of those material, social, literary, and artistic powers and influences which are indispensable to success for a mere man.  - Philip Schaff

Hello Dreamweaver,

Brother, I think it will be a worthy quote to simply say AMEN! AND AMEN! to your post.

Pro 30:5  Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Pro 30:6  Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

Psalm 94:9 He Who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He Who formed the eye, shall He not see?

Psalm 115:5-6 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;  6 They have ears, but they hear not; noses have they, but they smell not;

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

... Martin Luther (1483-1546)

“You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe.” John Adams, Second President of the United States.


LINCOLN said “Study the Constitution!”
“Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.”

I was pleased last year to proclaim 1983 the year of the Bible. But you know, a group called the ACLU severely criticized me for doing that. Well, I wear their indictment like a badge of honor.
- - - President Reagan, January 1984

We the people
of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. - 55 Brave men of the signing of the Constitution.

 "God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, "This is my Country."" -  Benjamin  Franklin

"Where annual elections end, there slavery begins." - John Quincy Adams

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - John Quincy Adams

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived. --Thomas Paine
 

satan would tempt us to despair; but good hope keeps us trusting in God and rejoicing in Him. -Henry

 
When men surrender themselves to the Spirit of God, they will learn more concerning God and Christ and the Atonement and immorality in a week, than they would learn in a lifetime, apart from the Spirit. --John Brown

Psa 9:16  The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Psa 9:17  The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

"It is hoped that by God's assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered....for the Glory of God."

Christopher Columbus

"My hope in the One who created us all sustains me; He is an ever present help in trouble...When I was extremely depressed, He raised me with His right hand, saying,`O man of little faith, get up, it is I; do not be afraid."

Christopher Columbus

 Ps 33:12 ¶ Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance

 
God is searching for men who are unique, thoroughly saved, and filled to running over with His spirit.  God and the world need men who will stand in the gap....  --Frank Carlson

God answers prayer in the best way, not sometimes, but every time, although the immediate manifestation of the answer in the domain in which we want it may not always follow. --Oswald Chambers

The ACLU and the courts are “basically cleansing America of religion and particularly Christianity. It’s almost like a genocide.”

-- Richard Thompson, president of the Michigan-based Thomas More Law Center

Ro 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
 Ro 14:8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to him. -Spurgeon
 
Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright. -Spurgeon

"The ACLU has stood foursquare against the recurring tides of hysteria that from time to time threaten freedoms everywhere..." - Chief Justice Earl Warren

"The American Civil Liberties Union is closely affiliated with the communist movement in the United States, and fully 90 percent of its efforts are on behalf of communists who have come into conflict with the law. It claims to stand for free speech, free press, and free assembly; but it is quite apparent that the main function of the ACLU is to attempt to protect the communists in their advocacy of force and violence to overthrow the government, replacing the American flag by a red flag and erecting a Soviet government in place of the republican form of government guaranteed to each state by the federal Constitution... Since its beginnings, the ACLU has waged war against Christianity..."  - the Special House Committee to Investigate Communist Activities, 1931

"Finally, the ACLU -- we talked about this yesterday and I -- and, you know, I have to pick on the ACLU because they're the most dangerous organization in the United States of America right now. There's by far. There's nobody even close to that. They're, like, second next to Al Qaeda." - Bill O'Reilly on 2 June 2004

The Anti Christian Lawless Union (ACLU)  reminds me of the Nazi leadership from WW2. - DreamWeaver aka. Bob

If this country had more respect for divine guidance it might have less need for guided missiles. --Chilton

 
Father, in the Name of Jesus, I ask that You uproot all evil persons and organizations that rise up against You and Your people. Father that this country, the United States of America, will continue to choose You as the Leader of our country. That Your Name be glorified, from coast to coast. Amen.

Day and night I pray for the restoration of peace in this mad world of ours. It is not necessary that I, the President ask the American people to pray in behalf of such a cause--for I know you are praying with me. I am certain that out of the hearts of every man, woman and child in this land, in every waking minute, a supplication goes up to Almighty God; that all of us beg that suffering and starving, that death and destruction may end -- and that peace may return to the world. - Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 26, 1940

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts. - A.W. Tozer

God’s Book is packed full of overwhelming riches; they are unsearchable—the more we have the more there is to have.

Oswald Chambers (1874–1917)

One controlling, guiding, unifying mind must have been operative through all the weary ages to produce out of such composite elements a result so wonderfully unique, uplifting, and unfathomable as the Bible; and that mind in the nature of things could not have been human.

William Gladstone (1809–1898)

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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and the pleasure.

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

Hearts that are "fit to break" with love for the Godhead are those who have been in the Presence and have looked with opened eye upon the majesty of Deity. Men of the breaking hearts had a quality about them not known to or understood by common men. They habitually spoke with spiritual authority. They had been in the Presence of God and they reported what they saw there. They were prophets, not scribes: for the scribe tells us what he has read, and the prophet tells us what he has seen. The distinction is not an imaginary one. Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen, there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes; but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God.  - A.W. Tozer

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!  - Patrick Henry

A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I have ever read.

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)



One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is this: that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and censorious.

J. I. Packer



However powerful and learned he may be, the Bible always sets man face to face with God, reminding him thus of his frailty and his weakness.

Paul Tournier (1898–1986)

Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own…
--George Washington, in his first inaugural address, April 30, 1789

Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
--Abraham Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural Address

Day and night I pray for the restoration of peace in this mad world of ours. It is not necessary that I, the President ask the American people to pray in behalf of such a cause—for I know you are praying with me.

I am certain that out of the hearts of every man, woman and child in this land, in every waking minute, a supplication goes up to Almighty God; that all of us beg that suffering and starving, that death and destruction may end -- and that peace may return to the world. In common affection for all mankind, your prayers join with mine -- that God will heal the wounds and the hearts of humanity.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt, Radio Address, May 26, 1940, delivered from the White House

But all of us--at home, at war, wherever we may be--are within reach of God's love and power. We all can pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of God's will. We should ask for courage, wisdom, for the quietness of soul which comes alone to them who place their lives in His hands. We should pray for a peace which is the fruit of righteousness. The Nation already is in the midst of a Crusade of Prayer. On the last Sunday of the old year, there will be special services devoted to a revival of faith. I call upon all of you to enlist in this common cause. I call upon you no matter what your spiritual allegiance.
--Harry S. Truman in remarks made at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree, 1950, while the nation was at war in Korea

Every day, millions of Americans pray for the safety of our troops, for the protection of innocent life, and for the peace we all hope for. Americans continue to pray for the recovery of the wounded, and to pray for the Almighty's comfort on those who have lost a loved one. We give thanks daily for the brave and decent men and women who wear our nation's uniform, and we thank their families, as well.

In this country, we recognize prayer is a gift from God to every human being. It is a gift that allows us to come before our Maker with heartfelt requests and our deepest hopes. Prayer reminds us of our place in God's creation. It reminds us that when we bow our heads or fall to our knees, we are all equal and precious in the eyes of the Almighty.

In prayer, we're reminded we're never alone in our personal trials or individual suffering. In prayer, we offer our thanksgiving and praise, recognizing our lives, our talents and all that we own ultimately flow from the Creator. And in these moments of our deepest gratitude, the Almighty reminds us that for those to whom much has been given, much is required.
--President George W. Bush, National Prayer Breakfast, February 2, 2006

Other books were given for our information, the Bible was given for our transformation.

Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899)

The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward.

William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925)

The Bible shows how the world progresses. It begins with a garden, but ends with a holy city.

Phillips Brooks (1835–1893)

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
     ~ Abraham Lincoln

AMEN!!

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Founders' Quote Daily

"May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness,
upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful
here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy. "

-- George Washington (letter to the  Hebrew Congregation in
Newport, August  1790)

Reference: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (548)

"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

"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith."  — Paul of Tarsus

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Founders' Quote Daily

"There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to
pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight,
and that time has now come."

-- Peter Muhlenberg (from a Lutheran sermon read at Woodstock,
Virginia, January 1776)

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Founders' Quote Daily

"It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society,
publicly and at stated seasons, to worship the Supreme Being, the
great Creator and Preserver of the universe.  And no subject shall
be hurt, molested, or restrained in his person, liberty, or estate,
for worshipping God in the manner and season most agreeable to the
dictates of his own conscience; or for his religion profession
of sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace,
or obstruct others in their religious worship...."

Massachusetts Bill of Rights, Part the First, 1780

Reference: Documents of American History, Commager, ed., vol. 1
(107)

I  rise at about 7 am; write until breakfast, about 8:30 am. After breakfast prayers, the reading of a chapter in the Bible, each one present reading a verse in turn, and all kneeling repeat the Lord's Prayer. - Rutherford B. Hayes

"More than two hundred years ago, James Madison wrote...that 'the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it can be directed only by reason and conviction and not by force or violence.' In this statement, Madison acknowledged our duty to our God. In our day, some have sought to alienate what Madison thought was unalienable. The attempt to drive religious free speech—and those who would speak it—from the public square must be resisted. We owe it to the martyrs of twenty centuries. We owe it to our fellow Americans. And we owe it to God Himself. Let us honor Him."    — Tony Perkins

"Before we point the finger at Hollywood, the government, or the business community for what is happening to America's youth, we must look at ourselves. I've worked on family public policy issues for 20 years, and I know the solutions to these problems do not rest in Washington, DC. Most of the solutions can be found in active, loving parenting. It doesn't take an act of Congress to take back your home... [A] 13-year-old boy [doesn't] have 60 bucks to buy a video game unless his daddy gave it to him. Eleven-year-old girls can't drive themselves to the mall, nor do they have the cash to buy trashy clothes that make them look like street walkers. And who pays for the cable television, orders the Internet connection and buys CDs for Christmas presents? Well-meaning moms and dads who are too busy or too absorbed with their own lives to see that their kids need them to push back against the toxic culture, not invite and pay for it to invade their homes. Many parents are more concerned about being their children's friend than they are about parenting. But kids don't need more drifting friends; they need their moms and dads. Our children are feeling around for boundaries, for a firm foundation on which they can build their lives, for love and nurture."    — Rebecca Hagelin

"I do believe in Almighty God! And I believe also in the Bible...Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: "Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever," and exclaim, Christ first, our country next!" - Andrew Johnson (Abraham Lincoln's choice for Vice-President)

President Abraham Lincoln issued a historic day of fasting and prayer on March 30, 1863 and he began by saying, "Whereas, the Senate of the United States devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for national prayer and humiliation: And whereas, it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history: that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord..."

5 days after the Civil War had ended, Abraham Lincoln went to Ford's theatre with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. She recalled his last words as they sat there: " He said he wanted to visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footprints of the Saviour. He was saying there was no city he so much desired to see as Jerusalem. And with the words half spoken on his tongue, the bullet of the assassin entered the brain, and the soul of the great and good President was carried by the angels to the New Jerusalem above"

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Founders' Quote Daily

"At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all
liability to account."

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Monsieur A. Coray, 31 October 1823)

I've been using some of the quotes from this thread on another forum. I figured that I should give back a little. I hope that these were not used yet.

This first quote was taken from a book by either Anne Coulter or Shawn Hannity, I don't remember which one it came from.

"A nation can survive it's fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly wispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguements, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."

MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Roman orator, statesman 42 B.C.

I'm thankful that the Biblically sound churches are starting to trend towards forfeiting their right to a 501C3 (tax exempt) for this reason alone...

"The Framers of America's Founding Documents relied heavily upon the writings of the French political philosopher, Baron de Montesquieu. Typical of Montesquieu's brilliant insight, he once wrote that:

“A more certain way to attack religion is by favor, by the comforts of life, by the hope of wealth; not by what reminds one of it, but by what makes one forget it; not by what makes one indignant, but by what makes men lukewarm, when other passions act on our souls, and those which religion inspires are silent. In the matter of changing religion, State favors are stronger than penalties.”

The Spirit of the Laws, Baron de Montesquieu (1748)"
http://hushmoney.org/

Dave

But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place in the public deliberations. It will not be sufficient that the rash counsels of human passion are rejected. It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.
- Franklin Pierce, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1853

He who cannot cast his burden upon the Lord must bear it himself. - O. Hallesby, Author and pastor

"May the Father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy." - George Washington

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Founders' Quote Daily

"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."

-- Samuel Adams (letter to James Warren, 16 April 1776)

Reference: The Spirit of `Seventy-Six, Commager and Morris (294);
original Warren-Adams Letters, vol. 1 (224-225)

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ. --Mark Hopkins

 
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger.  It is the heart that makes a man rich.  He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. -Beecher


When you have accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace; God is awake. -Hugo
 
Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in his changeless love. -Spurgeon


The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance. -Adams

We, the living, have not forgotten--and the world will never forget--the deeds or the words of Gettysburg. We honor them now as we join on this Memorial Day of 1963 in a prayer for permanent peace of the world and fulfillment of our hopes for universal freedom and justice. We are called to honor our own words of reverent prayer with resolution in the deeds we must perform to preserve peace and the hope of freedom. We keep a vigil of peace around the world.  -  Lyndon B. Johnson, May 30, 1963

The Heart of Our Government: "In God We Trust"

The anticipation of the crowd was contagious! All eyes were riveted on Gen. George Washington. The man was legendary - the hero of the decade! He approached the outdoor balcony of Federal Hall in New York City on April 30, 1789; viewed the podium; paused; then asked for a Bible. Stepping onto the balcony, the General placed his right hand on the open Book and took the oath of office, becoming the First President of the United States of America.

"It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being. And it is impossible to govern the universe without the aid of a Supreme Being."

General George Washington
1st President of the United States 1789 - 1797

God's holy word has surely been
inspired of God and not of men;

No power or eloquence of men
Could ever conceive God's wondrous plan.

Withstanding all tests of time,
It stands unchanged, unique, sublime;

Proving to every tongue and race,
God's wisdom, mercy, love and grace.

So hammer on, ye hostile hands;
Your hammers break, God's anvil stands.

M. E. H.

The Heart of Our Govenment

"In God We Trust"

"The Bible is the Rock on which our republic stands."

General Andrew Jackson
7th President of the United States 1829 - 1837

An entry in his diary states that he read three to five chapters of the Bible daily.

The Heart of Our Government

"In God We Trust"

"Hold fast to the Bible as the anchor of your liberty; write its precepts in your hands and practice them in your lives."

General Ulysses S. Grant,

18th President of the United States 1869 - 1877

The Heart of Our Government

"In God We Trust"

"Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God."

General Dwight D. Eisenhower,
34th President of the United States 1953 - 1961

Eisenhower was very much influenced bt the deep faith of his family. The Bible was read daily at family devotions as he grew up.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. -Jefferson
 
The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of food. -Will Rogers
 

"For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word throughout the world. We shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God... We shall shame the faces of many of God's worthy servants, and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are going."   —  John Winthrop

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth. -- Henry Ward Beecher

I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution , and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, His almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle. -- Abraham Lincoln

When you call God “Father,” you are saying there is One in heaven who hears, knows, understands, cares. Whatever a good father on earth would do for his children, that’s what God in heaven will do for his children.  --  Ray Pritchard, pastor and author

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Founders' Quote Daily

"With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most
solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the
utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath
graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our
enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with
unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation
of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen
rather than to live as slaves."

-- John Dickinson and Thomas Jefferson (Declaration of the Cause
and Necessity of Taking up Arms, 6 July 1775)

Reference: Documents of American History, Commager, ed., vol. 1
(95)

Billy Graham: "I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ."

Unknown: "Our greatest legacy will be those who live eternally in heaven because of our efforts."

From The Federalist Patriot:

Off the charts: "The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country... I don't see why people care about patriotism." —Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks

(My Note:  DUH!   ???   ::)  )

"I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him to save them, to keep them happy, and to take them off to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about their conduct or services." — A. W. Tozer

She can stick that comment in her ear.................... sideways.  ;D

A big
DUH!!


Without true Patriots this nation would not be a place to live nor like your life. To many of these people do not understand what it takes to have the freedoms that they so enjoy. I guess that old saying "you don't know what you have until it's gone" really applies in this situation.

Unfortunately when that time comes the majority of these people will say "Somebody should do something about this" all the while they just sit there and cry about the situation.

Jefferson in 1787 wrote: "Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect
that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever."

It is amazing how much God can accomplish through an imperfect person who has put all his imperfections completely at God's disposal. --Unknown

 
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, who ever he is. -C.S. Lewis



(HMMMMM I could break that down and say 60 seconds a minute, and by the time you read it you would be in your past, present and future. things that make you go hmmmmm) just my thoughts.

 
There was a Man who dwelt in the East centuries ago and now I cannot look at a sheep or a sparrow, a lily or a cornfield, a raven or a sunset, a vineyard or a mountain without thinking of Him. -Chesterton

Amen!

HUMOR
 
 
Falling downstairs if you do it while in the act of warning your wife not to. -Bird
 
Humor is the harmony of the heart. -Douglas Jerrold

The husband should be the houseband, binding all together like a cornerstone, but no crushing everything like a millstone. -Spurgeon

You don't have to go to heathen lands today to find false gods, America is full of them.  Whatever you love more than God is your idol. -Moody

 
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.  My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for that day. --Abraham Lincoln
 
If your knees are knocking, kneel on them. --Sign outside London Air Raid Post, W.W. II

God puts something good and lovable in every man His hands create. - Mark Twain: - "The American Vandal," speech, 1868

Belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the World and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources. - James Madison

"Whoever will not take time for prayer may as well give up all hope of obtaining the fullness of power God has for him. It is 'they that wait upon the Lord' who 'shall renew their strength." -  R.A. Torrey

Amen Brother, another saying,
A day started in prayer, seldom unravels.

Don't nurse grudges: "Failing to forgive is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

"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

"Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."-- Calvin Coolidge


"Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? 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!" -- Patrick Henry

Make me a captive, Lord, And then I shall be free; Force me to render up my sword, And I shall conqueror be.  I sink in life's alarms When by myself I stand; Imprison me within Thine arms, And strong shall be my Hand. -Matheson

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.  ~Thomas Paine


This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.  ~Elmer Davis


Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God...We have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!  -  Abraham Lincoln

Often, in the midst of great problems, we stop short of the real blessing God has for us, which is a fresh vision of who He is.  -  Anne Graham Lotz

God is there to meet you in the center of all your trials, and to whisper His secrets, which will make you come forth with a shining face and an indomitable faith that all the demons of hell shall never afterwards cause to waver.   -  E. A. Kilbourne

The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.  -  John Wesley

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians ever imagine that they are guilty themselves....The essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil; Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind...As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.  -  (Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis

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Founders' Quote Daily

"I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you,
and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection,
that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a
spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain
a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow
Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their
brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would
most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to
love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility
and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of
the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble
imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to
be a happy Nation. "

-- George Washington (circular letter of farewell to the Army,
8 June 1783)

Reference: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (249)

"One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use after they escape." —Will Rogers


(Small Print:   ;D  )

"The Marxist vision of man without God must eventually be seen as an empty and a false faith...first proclaimed in the Garden of Eden with whispered words of temptations: 'Ye shall be as gods.' The crisis of the Western World, Whittaker Chambers reminded us, exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God. 'The western World does not know it,' he said about our struggle, 'but it already possesses the answer to this problem—but only provided that its faith in God and the freedom He enjoins is as great as communism's faith in man.' This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men." — Ronald Reagan

"One day, our grandchildren may ask us what we did when Islamic fascism threatened the free world. Some of us will say we were preoccupied with fighting that threat wherever possible; others will be able to say they fought carbon dioxide emissions. One of us will look bad." — Dennis Prager

FAITH IS NOT BELIEVING THAT GOD CAN....
IT IS KNOWING THAT HE WILL.



Religion tends to want to fix us from the outside in. God wants to fix us from the inside out. The first can become an impossible burden. The latter is what brings freedom. Christianity is not a set of rules and regulations. It is experiencing divine love, divine acceptance and divine forgiveness.

If there is no final authority, then there can be no law that has legitimacy.

"If there is no absolute moral standard then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean that which applies (to all people), that which provides a final ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be real values. If there is no absolute beyonds man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgements conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions."    Fancis Sxhaeffer


"God's written law, back through the New Testament to Moses' written law; and the content and authority of that written law is rooted back to Him who is the final reality."     Francis Schaeffer

Used similar reasoning with my father-in-law. Who without rational basis said........"well, its just human nature for people to be good"

the deceiver is still waging a successful campain

He not only perfectly understands our caseand our problem, but He has morally, actively, finally solved it.  -  P.T. Forsyth

For all at once all sin is atoned for on the Cross, the entire fall is erased, and the whole obligation to satan and the entire sentence passed upon the fall of Adam is torn up, cancelled, and annulled by the nails of Jesus. - Count Ludwig Von Zinzendorf

AMEN!

God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us. We know well enough how to keep outward silence, and to hush our spoken words, but we know little of interior silence. It consists in hushing our idle, restless, wandering imagination, in quieting the promptings of our worldly minds, and in suppressing the crowd of unprofitable thoughts which excite and disturb the soul.  -  François Fénelon

We don't always need to know where we are going as long as we know whom we are following. God is in control. Even when we wind up in strange places or unusual circumstances, the Father is not caught by surprise.  =  Mike Clay

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.  = Madeleine L'Engle

Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.  =  Charles Stanley

There seems to be a notion abroad that if we talk enough and pray enough, revival will set in like a stock market boom or a winning streak on a baseball club. We appear to be waiting for some sweet chariot to swing low and carry us into the Big Rock Candy Mountain of religious experience... a kind of benign miracle, a feverish renaissance of religious activity that will come upon us, leaving us morally as we are now, except that we will be a lot happier and there will be a great many more of us....  =  A. W. Tozer

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds"- Samuel Adams


"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
-- Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill on the eve of Britain's entry into World War II

Samuel Adams,
All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.



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.

Pro 1:7  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

 
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. -Bacon
 
The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of God. -Pasca

"The day of our nation's birth in that little hall in Philadelphia, [was] a day on which debate had raged for hours. The men gathered there were honorable men hard-pressed by a king who had flouted the very laws they were willing to obey. Even so, to sign the Declaration of Independence was such an irretrievable act that the walls resounded with the words 'treason, the gallows, the headsman's axe,' and the issue remained in doubt. [On that day] 56 men, a little band so unique we have never seen their like since, had pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. Some gave their lives in the war that followed, most gave their fortunes, and all preserved their sacred honor... In recent years, however, I've come to think of that day as more than just the birthday of a nation. It also commemorates the only true philosophical revolution in all history. Oh, there have been revolutions before and since ours. But those revolutions simply exchanged one set of rules for another. Ours was a revolution that changed the very concept of government. Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people. We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should." — Ronald Reagan

The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily

"Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof - Lev. XXV, v. X"

Inscription on the Liberty Bell, from Leviticus 25:10

In worship our relationship with Christ is established, maintained, and repaired. Christ meets us in our act of celebrating his death and resurrection. In this worship encounter, the Spirit brings us the very real benefits of Christ's death - salvation, healing, comfort, hope, guidance, and assurance. Through this encounter, order and meaning come into our lives. Through worship, a right ordering of God, the world, self, and neighbour is experienced, and the worshiper receives a peace that passes understanding. Simply put, worship is an it-is-well-with-my-soul experience. - Robert Webber

To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, "Come to me and rest". But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same invitation is meant. Note well the words of Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service, and do not mistake it. It is not, "Go, labor on," as perhaps you imagine. On the contrary, it is stop, turn back, "Come to me and rest." Never, never did Christ send a heavy laden one to work; never, never did He send a hungry one, a weary one, a sick or sorrowing one, away on any service. For such the Bible only says, "Come, come, come." - James Hudson Taylor

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.  -  Daniel Webster
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It is in vain, sir, to extentuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? 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! - Patrick Henry 

Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty.

George W. Bush

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


This was said about the United States yet we could change a few words here and there and it would also apply to Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of Heaven. We need to support our Lord without fear of others and what they might do to us. To stand fast in His word without wavering.

Jesus, like any good fisherman, first catches the fish; then He cleans them.  -  Mark Potter


What are our lame praises in comparison with His love? Nothing, and less than nothing; but love will stammer rather than be dumb.  -  Robert Leighton

 
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies; for the hardest victory is victory over self. --Aristotle

 
If any lift of mine may ease the burden of another, God give me love and care and strength to help my ailing brother. -Anonymous

"An informed patriotism is what we want. And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? Those of us who are over thirty-five or so years of age grew up in a different America. We were taught, very directly, what it means to be an American. And we absorbed, almost in the air, a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions. If you didn't get these things from your family, you got them from the neighborhood, from the father down the street who fought in Korea or the family who lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school. And if all else failed, you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture. The movies celebrated democratic values and implicitly reinforced the idea that America was special." — Ronald Reagan

(My Note: This was even more true regarding the Things of GOD, respect for GOD, reverence for GOD, and the diligent teaching of the things of GOD to children before they could even talk. This upsets me much more than patriotism, but I must add that GOD was also a big part of patriotism.)

What shall I give you, Lord, in return for all Your kindness?

Glory to You for Your love.
Glory to You for Your mercy.
Glory to You for Your patience.
Glory to You for forgiving us all our sins.
Glory to You for coming to save our souls.
Glory to You for Your incarnation in the virgin's womb.
Glory to You for Your bonds.
Glory to You for receiving the cut of the lash.
Glory to You for accepting mockery.
Glory to You for Your crucifixion.
Glory to You for Your burial.
Glory to You for Your resurrection.
Glory to You who were preached to men and women.
Glory to You in whom they believed.
Glory to You who were taken up into heaven.
Glory to You who sit in great glory at the Father's right hand.
Glory to You whose will it is that the sinner should be saved through Your great mercy and compassion.

Ephraem of Syria (ca. 306-373)

Amen and Amen!! Glory to God in the highest.

The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily

"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time;
the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."

-- Thomas Jefferson (Rights of British America, 1774)

Reference: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Lipscomb and Bergh,

The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily

"Remember, my Eliza, you are a Christian."

-- Alexander Hamilton (speaking to his grieving wife, 7/12/1804)

Reference: Facts and Documments..., Editor of the Evening Post,
ed. (23); original letter from David Hosack, August 17, 1804

If we exalt money, status, or sex above the Word of God, we are living in idolatry. Every time we inwardly submit to the strongholds of fear, bitterness, and pride, we are bowing to the rulers of darkness. Each of these idols must be smashed, splintered, and obliterated from the landscape of our hearts. - Francis Frangipane


From a heart overflowing with gratitude, we will want to honour and glorify God by gratefully offering back to Him the many good gifts He has bestowed on us. We will not go to church to be entertained, to see "what we can get out of it" for our own private gratification, but rather to praise and worship the triune God of grace and glory - Anonymous


When we go through trials and troubles we can always rely on God and know that He will be with us and will help us through. Clouds and rain can help make your roots strong and give you stability if you let God work through them. David in Psalms 124:1 - 8 expressed the same idea. So let us rejoice in our clouds and rain and know that God is still in control even when we can't see Him. - David Vincent

"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."
... Samuel Adams, 1771


"Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in that field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? 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!"
........Patrick Henry

C. S. Lewis

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.


Thomas Paine

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a patriot." -- Mark Twain

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


God enters by a private door into every individual. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–1899)


Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and
my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish,
silly, and sometimes sinful notions. Prayer means that I am to be
raised up into feeling, into union and design with him; that I am
to enter into his counsel and carry out his purpose fully.




Salvation is worth working for. It is worth a man's going round the
world on his hands and knees, climbing its mountains, crossing its
valleys, swimming its rivers, going through all manner of hardship in
order to attain it. But we do not get it in that way. It is to him who
believes.

The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily

"It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive
in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which
has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in
the critical stages of the revolution."

-- James Madison (Federalist No. 37, 11 January 1788 )

"There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people who think that they do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it." — Will Rogers

(My Note:   ;D )

"I have a dream that some day, every child will be conceived from an act of true love between parents who love each other, are married to each other, and eagerly welcome him. I have a dream that every child will spend his childhood with those parents who brought him into being. Parents see the value of the small society they have created between themselves and their children, and do everything humanly possible to sustain that society. I have a dream that children can be children, take joy in their childhood innocence, and not become sexualized before puberty... I have a dream that the market accommodates the needs of the family, rather than the family adapting itself to the needs of the market. We create an economy in which people are prepared to earn a living before the age of twenty-five or thirty. Young people graduate from college without crushing debt, and without the prospect of unmanageable housing costs and tax burdens. Families can support themselves on one income, at least for a while... I want us to...become what we should have been from the beginning." — Jennifer Roback Morse

"Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us that they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy 'accommodation.' And they say if we only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he will forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer—not an easy one, but a simple one—if you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based upon what we know in our hearts is morally right... Every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face." — Ronald Reagan

ROFL!!!

“No foreign power or combination of foreign powers could by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.  At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?  I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up from among us, it cannot come from abroad.  If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.  As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die of suicide.”  Abraham Lincoln

“The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His word in his greatest darkness, ‘a lantern to his feet and a lamp unto his path.’ He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation.” Francis Scott Key (1779-1843)

Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Or are you just sitting around daydreaming about the greatness of His redemption, while neglecting all the things you could be doing for Him? I'm not referring to works which could be regarded as divine and miraculous, but ordinary, simple human things - things which would be evidence to God that you are totally surrendered to Him. - Oswald Chambers
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Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee. - Blaise Pascal

I pray Heaven bestow the best of blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men rule under this roof.
- John Adams 2nd President

Spoken Introduction:
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer.

 
God bless America, land that I love
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with the light from above.

From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the ocean white with foam
God bless America,
My home sweet home. - Irving Berlin

Thinking about the jihad, that has been declared on Israel, and America.  Theres only one quote, I can think of right now. Course I have to censor two words.  But I think y'all know the word...................
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No Dummy ever won a war by dying for his country. He won the war by making the OTHER DUMMY DIE FOR HIS COUNTRY! - General George S. Patton

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts. -- A. W. Tozer

Stay off the far left websites, they only make you look foolish. - Bill O'Reilly

"As bats' eyes are to daylight so is our intellectual eye blind to those truths that are most obvious of all."

Aristotle

Of all systems of morality, ancient or modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to be so pure as that of Jesus.  -- Thomas Jefferson, To William Canby, 1813

I'm proud of our United States military. Many of you volunteered for service after September 11, 2001. You saw that our nation was attacked, and when the country called upon you, you said, let me serve, let me join in the fight to defeat the terrorists, so attacks like that will never occur on our soil again. And that's what you're doing here in Afghanistan. You're changing -- you're helping to change this part of the world, and change the world with your courage and your sacrifice. I assure you that this government of yours will not blink, we will not yield. We're on the right course, and the world is going to be a better place because of your service. -- George W. Bush

Prayer is not the mystical experience of a few special people, but an aggressive act. . . an act that may be performed by anyone who will accept the challenge to learn to pray. -- Jack Hayford

"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 this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." -- Patrick Henry, original member of the Continental Congress

If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes."
 --Daniel Webster

“When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.”
--Noah Webster

"It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord." --Abraham Lincoln

"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 this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." --Patrick Henry, original member of the Continental Congress

"Work as if you were to live 100 years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow." --Benjamin Franklin

"We've staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us . . . to Govern ourselves according to the commandments of God. The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded."
 --President James Madison

"I conceive we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world…that the confusions that are and have been among the nations may be overruled by the promoting and speedily bringing in the holy and happy period when the kingdoms of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be everywhere established."
 --Samuel Adams, American Revolutionist and signer of the Declaration of Independence

HARVARD
The Founding Fathers placed a strong priority on higher education with the Bible as the cornerstone. On September 26, 1642 the guidelines that would govern Harvard University, our nation's first college, were established. They read, in part, "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 Christ in the bottom, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom, let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of him (Proverbs 2:3)." The motto of Harvard was Christi Gloriam (Christ be glorified) and the college was later dedicated Christo et Ecclesiae (for Christ and for the Church). The founders of Harvard believed that "All knowledge without Christ was vain."

John Adams and John Hancock:
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! [April 18, 1775]

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Patrick Henry


"It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains."

"A great many people say
that if they keep the commandments
they do not need to be forgiven and saved through Christ.
But have you kept them?
I will admit
that if you perfectly keep the commandments,
you do not need to be saved by Christ;
but is there a man in the wide world
who can truly say that he has done this?
Young lady, can you say: '
I am ready to be weighed by the law.'?
Can you, young man?
Will you step into the scales and be weighed
one by one by the Ten Commandments?"

--D. L. Moody, from "The Ten Commandments"

HARVARD
The Founding Fathers placed a strong priority on higher education with the Bible as the cornerstone. On September 26, 1642 the guidelines that would govern Harvard University, our nation's first college, were established. They read, in part, "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 Christ in the bottom, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom, let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of him (Proverbs 2:3)." The motto of Harvard was Christi Gloriam (Christ be glorified) and the college was later dedicated Christo et Ecclesiae (for Christ and for the Church). The founders of Harvard believed that "All knowledge without Christ was vain."

John Quincy Adams:
• “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?" “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity"?
--1837, at the age of 69, when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts

Benjamin Franklin: | Portrait of Ben Franklin
“ God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel” –Constitutional Convention of 1787 | original manuscript of this speech

“In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered… do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?” [Constitutional Convention, Thursday June 28, 1787]

In Benjamin Franklin's 1749 plan of education for public schools in Pennsylvania, he insisted that schools teach "the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern."

In 1787 when Franklin helped found Benjamin Franklin University, it was dedicated as "a nursery of religion and learning, built on Christ, the Cornerstone."

Alexander Hamilton:
• Hamilton began work with the Rev. James Bayard to form the Christian Constitutional Society to help spread over the world the two things which Hamilton said made America great:
(1) Christianity
(2) a Constitution formed under Christianity.
“The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.”

On July 12, 1804 at his death, Hamilton said, “I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me.”

George Washington

“ It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.”


“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.” [speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs May 12, 1779]

"To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian" [May 2, 1778, at Valley Forge]

“ I have sinned against heaven and before Thee in thought, word, and deed. I have contemned Thy majesty and holy laws. I have likewise sinned by omitting what I ought to have done and committing what I ought not. I have rebelled against the light, despising Thy mercies and judgment, and broken my vows and promise. I have neglected the better things. My iniquities are multiplied and my sins are very great. I confess them, O Lord, with shame and sorrow, detestation and loathing and desire to be vile in my own eyes as I have rendered myself vile in Thine. I humbly beseech Thee to be merciful to me in the free pardon of my sins for the sake of Thy dear Son and only Savior Jesus Christ who came to call not the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Thou gavest Thy Son to die for me.”
[George Washington; from a 24 page authentic handwritten manuscript book dated April 21-23, 1752
William J. Johnson George Washington, the Christian (New York: The Abingdon Press, New York & Cincinnati, 1919), pp. 24-35.]

John Quincy Adams

July 4, 1837

"Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day. Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday ofthe Savior? That it forms a leading event in the Progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation ofthe Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Saviour and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets 600 years before."






"I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity."

Patrick Henry

"It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains."

John Dickinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independance said, "To my Creator, I resign myself, humbly confiding in His goodness and in His mercy through Jesus Christ for the events of eternity."



Gabriel Duvall, also a signer of the Declaration of Independance, later a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and an appointee to the Supreme Court said, "I resign my soul into the hands of the Almighty who gave it in humble hopes of his mercy through our Savior Jesus Christ."


John Witherspoon, another signer of the Declaration of Independance, pastor and President of New Jersey College (Princeton University today) said, "I shall entreat ... you in the most earnest manner to believe in Jesus Christ, for there is no salvation in any other" [Acts 4:12] ... f you are not clothed with the spotless robe of His righteousness, you must forever perish."

Amen Pastor Roger,

I was just thinking about how different this country would be had we continued in the steps that the founders fought for. They were not ashamed of JESUS CHRIST, as they mentioned him often. Further, the vast majority of them believed strongly in prayer for guidance of anyone holding a public office.

Today, I know that all Christians should still be praying for our leaders every day, even though many of them don't stand up very often, especially in the things of the LORD. It may also be possible that many of our leaders don't know JESUS CHRIST, so our prayers would be even more important. As we all know, many politicians who profess JESUS CHRIST make themselves targets of the left, and they can expect to be attacked at every turn. So, our Christian politicians are also desperate for our prayers.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Matthew 5:13 NASB  "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.

"I go to the word and learn there
all the characteristics of a child of God;
and after each one of them I write:
this Jesus shall work in me:
I have him to make me to be a child of God."
(taken from THE NEW LIFE, Chapter 8: CHILDREN OF GOD)    Dr. Andrew Murray

The Gospel has not lost its power; it is just as powerful today as it ever has been. We don’t want any new doctrine. It is still the old Gospel with the old power, the Holy Ghost power; and if the churches will but confess their sins and put them away, and lift the standard instead of pulling it down, and pray to God to lift us all up into a higher and holier life, then the fear of the Lord will come upon the people around us.

D. L. Moody

A great man people say, you must hear both sides; but if a man should write me a most slanderous letter about my wife, I don’t think I would have to read it; I would tear it up and throw it to the winds. Have I to read all the infidel books that are written, to hear both sides? Have I to take up a book that is slander on my Lord and Master, Who has redeemed me with His blood? Ten thousand times no! I will not touch it.

Dwight Lyman Moody

Amen Pastor Roger!

I'm just now finding some sources for some old and very beautiful things written by D.L. Moody. I'll have to remember to make a list and share them with you soon. D.L. Moody was a mighty man of God, and God is still using D.L. Moody's writing in a mighty way.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Psalms 127:1 NASB  Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain.

I concieve we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world....that the confusions that are and have been among the nations may be overruled by the promoting and speedily bringing in the holy and happy period when the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be everywhere established. Samuel Adams

The Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; may He not leave us or forsake us; so that He may incline our hearts to Him, to walk in all His ways...that all peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other. George Bush 41st President

We think it is incumbent upon this people to humble themselves before God on account of their sins.....[And] also to implore the Divine Blessing upon us, that by the assistance of His grace, we may be enabled to reform whatever is amiss among us, that so God may be pleased to continue to us the blessings we enjoy.
John Hancock

"Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in that field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? 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!"
........Patrick Henry

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -- Abraham Lincoln

Anne Graham Lotz, Billy Graham's daughter, was interviewed on the Early Morning Show regarding Katrina (could have easily been 9/11) and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?"


She said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And, being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"

That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. - Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863

Every civilized nation, including those in the Muslim world, must support those in the region who are offering a more hopeful alternative. We know that when people have a voice in their future, they are less likely to blow themselves up in suicide attacks. We know that when leaders are accountable to their people, they are more likely to seek national greatness in the achievements of their citizens, rather than in terror and conquest. So we must stand with democratic leaders and moderate reformers across the broader Middle East. We must give them voice to the hopes of decent men and women who want for their children the same things we want for ours. We must seek stability through a free and just Middle East where the extremists are marginalized by millions of citizens in control of their own destinies. - George W. Bush

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"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

-- Nathan Hale (before being hanged by the British, 22 September
1776)

Reference: The Spirit of `Seventy-Six, Commager and Morris (476);
original General William Hull, Campbell (37-38)

The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.
- Sir Winston Churchill

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it, the more confident my hope that they will prove useful citizens, and respectful members of society.
- John Quincy Adams

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"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)

(My Note: The Old English spelling is correct, BUT THE MESSAGE IS REALLY CORRECT.)

A former USMC Sergeant, Ben Weihrich

Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you: Jesus Christ and the American G. I. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom. PASS THIS ON! MANY SEEM TO FORGET BOTH OF THEM!! SEMPER FI

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"It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn
Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with
Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, guns, Bells, Bonfires
and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from
this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with
Enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware of the Toil and Blood
and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration,
and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom
I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that
the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will
tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it,
which I trust in God We shall not."

-- John Adams (letter to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776)

Reference: Our Sacred Honor, Bennett (64)

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"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail
fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."

-- John Paul Jones (letter to M. Le Ray de Chaumont, 16 November
1778)

Reference: John Paul Jones: Fighter for Freedom and Glory, Lorenz
(xii)

George Washington

"To the distinguished Character of a Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the most distinguished Character of Christian."


"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."


"Of all the habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports...Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

Thomas Jefferson


"The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty . . . students' perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens."



John Jay, First Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court:

    "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."

“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

“We Americans are blessed in so many ways. We’re a nation under God, a living and loving God. But Thomas Jefferson warned us, ‘I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.’ We cannot expect Him to protect us in crisis if we turn away from Him in our everyday living. But you know, He told us what to do in II Chronicles. Let us reach out to Him. He said, ‘If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land’.” — Ronald Reagan

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness—these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.”
– George Washington


“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
–Thomas Jefferson


“t 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, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure, than they have it now, they may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty.”
– John Adams


“...The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ‘except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.’ ”
– Benjamin Franklin


“Were my soul trembling on the wing of eternity, were this hand freezing to death, were my voice choking with the last struggle, I would still, with the last gasp of that voice, implore you to remember the truth: God has given America to be free.”
– Patrick Henry


“And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”
– Abraham Lincoln


“Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: ‘Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,’ and exclaim, ‘Christ first, our country next!’ ”
– Andrew Johnson


“We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.”
– Franklin Roosevelt


“Without God, there is no virtue, because there’s no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we’re mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”
– Ronald Reagan

"The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men, and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them…. Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differently…. God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take."
Rev. Charles G. Finney (1792-1875)

"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."
John Jay, (1745-1829, Original Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court)

"If the time comes when America shall go to pieces, it will…[be] from…losing sight of the fact that 'Righteousness exalteth a nation, but that sin is a reproach to any people'…Unless we hold…to these great fundamental principles of righteousness, America will be only a covenant with death and an agreement with hell."
Rev. Francis Grimke (1850-1937), Minister of the Gospel

"The people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities…If the next centennial does not find us a great nation…it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces."
Rev. James A. Garfield, (1831-1881), United States President, Minister of the Gospel.

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"It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire
of liberty, and a prospect of two or three hundred millions of
freemen, without one noble or one king among them. You say it
is impossible. If I should agree with you in this, I would still
say, let us try the experiment, and preserve our equality as long
as we can. A better system of education for the common people
might preserve them long from such artificial inequalities as are
prejudicial to society, by confounding the natural distinctions
of right and wrong, virtue and vice."

-- John Adams (letter to Count Sarsfield, 3 February 1786)

Reference: Our Sacred Honor, Bennett, 264.

“Why is it that many, if not all, of us think twice before we say what we really think or believe? Have we been silenced by the popular hecklers? Are we afraid? Is there a cultural inquisitor who stalks us all? Then, why is it that so many of us who know better about so much that we see around us cower and speak in hushed, mousy voices?” —  Justice Clarence Thomas

“Democrats think military tribunals aren’t good enough for the terrorists plotting to kill Americans today. Liberals are going to make the terrorists love us!” — Ann Coulter

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"It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted.
Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained.  If, to
please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we
afterwards defend our work?  Let us raise a standard to which the
wise and the honest can repair.  The event is in the hand of God. "

-- George Washington (as quoted by Gouverneur Morris in Farrand's
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, 25 March 1787)

Reference: George Washington and the New Nation, James Flexner
(116-7)

"I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the
Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions,
their doctrines, discipline, or exercises."

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Samuel Miller, 23 January 1809)

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"It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated
seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator
and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt,
molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for
worshipping GOD in the manner most agreeable to the dictates of
his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments;
provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others
in their religious worship."

-- John Adams (Thoughts on Government, 1776)

Reference: The Works of John Adams, Charles Adams, ed., 221.

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"It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage,
and such only, as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty
is precedent both in order of time and degree of obligation, to
the claims of Civil Society. Before any man can be considered as
a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of
the Governor of the Universe."

-- James Madison (A Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785)

Reference: Our Sacred Honor, Bennett (327)

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"To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the
world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his
creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature,
may be considered as perfectly free from all restraints of law
and government, appears to a common understanding altogether
irreconcilable.  Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced
a very dissimilar theory.  They have supposed that the deity,
from the relations we stand in to himself and to each other, has
constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is indispensably
obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution
whatever.  This is what is called the law of nature....Upon this
law depend the natural rights of mankind."

-- Alexander Hamilton

(My Note:  The law of nature is the Laws of GOD. It's interesting to note that "The Laws of Nature" is an adopted legal term in the foundation of American Law. For those who don't know, the Holy Bible was quoted verbatim, Chapter and Verse, for many of the laws first adopted in this country. Violations of certain types are still known as against the "Laws of Nature".)

"All war is based on deception." -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of
Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits,
and humbly to implore his protection and favors."

-- George Washington (Thanksgiving Proclamation, 3 October 1789)

Reference: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (543)

George Washington's Morning Prayer:
O eternal and everlasting God, I presume to present myself this morning before thy Divine majesty, beseeching thee to accept of my humble and hearty thanks, that it hath pleased thy great goodness to keep and preserve me the night past from all the dangers poor mortals are subject to, and has given me sweet and pleasant sleep, whereby I find my body refreshed and comforted for performing the duties of this day, in which I beseech thee to defend me from all perils of body and soul.
Direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the lamb, and purge my heart by thy Holy Spirit, from the dross of my natural corruption, that I may with more freedom of mind and liberty of will serve thee, the ever lasting God, in righteousness and holiness this day, and all the days of my life.
Increase my faith in the sweet promises of the Gospel. Give me repentance from dead works. Pardon my wanderings, & direct my thoughts unto thyself, the God of my salvation. Teach me how to live in thy fear, labor in thy service, and ever to run in the ways of thy commandments. Make me always watchful over my heart, that neither the terrors of conscience, the loathing of holy duties, the love of sin, nor an unwillingness to depart this life, may cast me into a spiritual slumber. But daily frame me more and more into the likeness of thy son Jesus Christ, that living in thy fear, and dying in thy favor, I may in thy appointed time attain the resurrection of the just unto eternal life. Bless my family, friends & kindred unite us all in praising & glorifying thee in all our works begun, continued, and ended, when we shall come to make our last account before thee blessed Saviour, who hath taught us thus to pray, our Father.

1Ti 2:1  I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
1Ti 2:2  For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.


Pro 28:2  For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.


Pro 21:1  The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.


Pro 8:15  By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

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"Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies
are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining
to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you
depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important
question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions
yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves."

-- Joseph Warren (Boston Massacre Oration, 6 March 1775)

Reference: Life and Times of Joseph Warren, Frothingham (435)

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"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 virture among
men for self-government; and that nothing less than the chains
of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring
one another."

-- Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (Federalist No. 55,
15 February 1788)

Reference: The Federalist

"The only title in our democracy superior to that of president is the title of citizen."

President Woodrow Wilson in 1916

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"Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable
rights of man."

-- Thomas Jefferson (Letter to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824)

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"Some talked, some wrote, and some fought to promote and establish
it, but you and Mr. Jefferson thought for us all.  I never take
a retrospect of the years 1775 and 1776 without associating
your opinions and speeches and conversations with all the great
political, moral, and intellectual achievements of the Congress
of those memorable years."

-- Benjamin Rush (to John Adams, 17 February 1812)

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"Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has
a right to concentrate your affections.  The name of American,
which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always
exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation
derived from local discriminations."

-- George Washington (Farewell Address, 19 September 1796)

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"... [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE
nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the
aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments."

-- Alexander Hamilton (Federalist No. 78, 1788)

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"His person, you know, was fine, his stature exactly what one
would wish, his deportment easy, erect and noble."

-- Thomas Jefferson (on George Washington in a letter to Dr. Walter
Jones, 2 January 1814)

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"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen;
and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the happy hour
when the establishment of American Liberty, upon the most firm
and solid foundations shall enable us to return to our Private
Stations in the bosom of a free, peacefully and happy Country."

-- George Washington (address to the New York Legislature, 26
June 1775)

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"The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise
men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as
much to the world as the former examples we had give them. The
constitution, too, which was the result of our deliberation,
is unquestionably the wisest ever yet presented to men."

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to David Humphreys, 18 March 1789)

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"His Example is now complete, and it will teach wisdom and virtue
to magistrates, citizens, and men, not only in the present age,
but in future generations, as long as our history shall be read."

-- John Adams (message to the U.S. Senate, 19 December 1799)

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"Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary
for the support of societies as natural affection is for the
support of families."

-- Benjamin Rush (letter to His Fellow Contrymen: On Patriotism,
20 October 1773)

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"The same prudence which in private life would forbid our
paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the
dispensation of the public moneys."

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Shelton Gilliam, 19 June 1808)

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"I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the
storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below
it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow
laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants...I have
no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office."

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to John Adams, 28 December 1796)

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"In my judgement it is not only ripe for the measure, but in
danger of becoming rotten for the want of it."

-- John Witherspoon (debate over the Declaration, July 1776)

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"If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce
and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of
reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate
such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God
Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift,
and voluntarily become a slave."

-- John Adams (Rights of the Colonists, 1772)

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"That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary
for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always
thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being
of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage
and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick
Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater
Respect among the common People."

-- Benjamin Franklin (On that Odd Letter of the Drum, April 1730)

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"If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its
authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people,
whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have
formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the
Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify."

-- Alexander Hamilton (Federalist No. 33, 3 January 1788)

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"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.

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"Statesmen by 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, and if this cannot be
inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it
now, They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government,
but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty."

-- John Adams (letter to Zabdiel Adams, 21 June 1776)

Reference: Our Sacred Honor, Bennett, pg. 371.

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"Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a
noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and
blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and
faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity
all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of
liberty, property, religion, and independence."

-- Joseph Story (Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833)

Reference: Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 718.

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"It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society,
publicly and at stated seasons, to worship the Supreme Being, the
great Creator and Preserver of the universe.  And no subject shall
be hurt, molested, or restrained in his person, liberty, or estate,
for worshipping God in the manner and season most agreeable to the
dictates of his own conscience; or for his religion profession
of sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace,
or obstruct others in their religious worship...."

Massachusetts Bill of Rights, Part the First, 1780

Reference: Documents of American History, Commager, ed., vol. 1

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"I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better
for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been
the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have
been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better."

-- Thomas Jefferson (Jefferson, on Jefferson, in, 1800)

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"In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general
government is not to be charged with the whole power of making
and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain
enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic,
but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions
of any."

-- James Madison (Federalist No. 14, 30 November 1787)

Reference: Madison, Federalist No. 14

"I think that it's time to call in the big guns. Where's Elmer Fudd when you need him? I can only imagine the shock and awe of Elmer Fudd stomping through the woods in complete stealth mode." -  By blackeyedpeas ;D ;D

 ;D   ;D   ;D   ROFL!! Coffee looks good on the computer monitor.

Now that's an excellent quote.

 ;D   ;D

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/randers/elmers5a.jpg)

OK! - You woke up the attack rabbits.

Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

Invite them for dinner??

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

 ;D

UM? - Trying to eat those attack rabbits would be a bad mistake - maybe even a last mistake. These are covert attack rabbits, and the razor-like fangs are hidden under massive and powerful jaws.

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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one
who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve
it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are
inevitably ruined."

-- Patrick Henry (speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention,
5 June 1778)

Reference: The Debates of the Several State..., Elliot, vol. 3 (45)

An easy task for an expert wabbit hunter.   :D :D

 ;D

Those attack rabbits just might have met their match. I had no idea that they would send a barbarian with a horned helmet to dispatch these baby attack rabbits.

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"[W]e are confirmed in the opinion, that the present age would be
deficient in their duty to God, their posterity and themselves,
if they do not establish an American republic.  This is the
only form of government we wish to see established; for we can
never be willingly subject to any other King than He who, being
possessed of infinite wisdom, goodness and rectitude, is alone
fit to possess unlimited power."

Instructions of Malden, Massachusetts for a Declaration of
Independence, 27 May 1776

Reference: Documents of American Histroy, Commager, vol. 1 (97)

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"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society.
It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained,
or until liberty be lost in the pursuit."

-- James Madison (Federalist No. 51, 8 February 1788)

Reference: Madison, Federalist No. 51.

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"I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the
more convincing proofs I see of this Truth, that God governs in
the Affairs of Men. And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the Ground
without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without
his Aid?"

-- Benjamin Franklin (Motion for Prayers in the Constitutional
Convention, 28 June 1787)

Reference: Franklin: Collected Works, Lemay, ed. (1138)

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"[T]he only foundation for a useful education in a republic is
to be laid in religion.  Without this there can be no virtue,
and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the
object and life of all republican governments."

-- Benjamin Rush (On the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic,
1806)

Reference: Original Intent, Barton (153); original Essays,
Literary, Moral and Philosophical, Rush (8 )

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"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)

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"It is not necessary to enumerate the many advantages, that arise
from this custom of early marriages.  They comprehend all the
society can receive from this source; from the preservation, and
increase of the human race.  Every thing useful and beneficial
to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of
his nature, the inclinations, the duties, and the happiness
of individuals, resolve themselves into customs and habits,
favourable, in the highest degree, to society.  In no case is this
more apparent, than in the customs of nations respecting marriage."
 
-- Samuel Williams (The Natural and Civil History of Vermont, 1794)

Excellent Words form Our Founding Father, Tom-and still so relevant now...

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"Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry
we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice
of our cause, we determine to die or be free...."
 
-- Joseph Warren (American account of the Battle of Lexington,
26 April 1775)
 
Reference: Documents of American History, Commager, ed., vol. 1
(99)

(My Note:    WHY?  Self-defense is a GOD given right, and it was also recognized that the people might have to rise up against tyranny again.)

(My Note:  I don't think that the founders would approve of our current taxes, and they certainly wouldn't approve in what the money is spent for.)

"Two basic reasons underlie the attempt to separate America from its spiritual roots.

First, the liberal goal of state socialism is incompatible with a citizenry who look to themselves and to God, rather than the state, for the satisfaction of their needs. Socialism requires that citizens do obeisance to the state as the Source from which all blessings flow. The supreme State can have no other God before it.

The second reason for outlawing religion derives from the lobbying of those who wish their sins declared virtues. They seek the validation of the law, in the futile belief that the legal right to be wrong makes wrong right."
---- Linda Bowles

Brother, I had to save a copy of this one. It's short, speaks volumes, and hits the nail square on the head. In short, I like it! THANKS!

Naturally you're welcome to it. Yes, I thought it said it all in a brief few words also and one that I am going to try to remember.

"Those who cling to the untrue doctrine that violence never settles anything would be advised to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms. " Robert A. Heinlein

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong -- Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847)

(My Note:  I think that someone forgot to tell our current representatives.)

My Note:  Brothers and Sisters,  this is the foundation of legal concepts labelled in the laws as "Crimes Against Nature". These were and ARE crimes against GOD. We must remember that many of our Laws come right out of the Holy Bible - RIGHTFULLY SO. Our foundation was by Christians and for Christians MOST OBVIOUSLY UNDER GOD!