America Was A Special Place
Early American Men & Women
Believed In Freedomsand LawsWhat Happened to these ideas?
FAMOUS QUOTATIONS...
"Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit,
proclaimed from the legislatures, and enforced in courts of
justice."
- Abraham Lincoln
"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that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights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
"I believe there are more instances of abridgment of freedom of
the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in
power than by violent an sudden usurpations..."
- James Madison
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge...!"
- Hosea 4:6
"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen
from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep
the government from falling into error."
- U.S. Supreme Court
"I don't mind telling you...
A government can begin to smell pretty quick."
Governments of man profiled: "Scheming demons dressed in
kingly guise, beating down the multitudes and scoffing at the wise"
- Excerpt from the song "A Farewell to Kings" by Neil Peart
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political
prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In
vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should
labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness...,
reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national
morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
- George Washington's farewell address 1796
"If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification
of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be
corrected by an amendment in the way the Constitution
designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for
though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is
the customary weapon by which free governments are
destroyed... "
- George Washington's farewell address 1796
"If My people who 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."
- II Chronicles 7:14
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