posted on Jan, 4 2009 @ 04:57 PM
For me I see a ever-growing irrationality , especially those in college.
I see people who refuse to let facts get in the way of their politics.
I see a breakdown in the Golden Rule
I think what is written here has a lot of truth to it. I'm not advocating a theocracy or thought police. But I do think that our public schools
have been co opted by a destructive agenda.
James Madison
“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our
political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten
Commandments of God.”
Thomas Jefferson:
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction
in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my
country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
Daniel Webster
“There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From
the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some
danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way
they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.”
“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000
years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the
world.”
“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 ovenvhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
(It's taken about 40 years for this happen)
“If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be
not diffused, error will be; If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy, If the evangelical
volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the
length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.”
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