Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
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A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society
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It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but read more
It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.
No nation has friends only interests
No nation has friends only interests
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.
It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on read more
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others read more
There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right
I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it read more
I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
