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General Interest
“An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” — Orlando A. Battista
“Federalism employs mass propaganda and terrorization, reinforced by random victimization, to achieve its ends.” — Thurston Bell
“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.” — Edmund Burke
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.” — Edmund Burke
“Let it [the Constitution] be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, in spelling books, and almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. In short, let it become the political religion of the nation.” — Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower Administration
“God is going to reveal to us things he never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.” — George Washington Carver
“There are two places only where socialism will work; in heaven where it is not needed, and in hell where they already have it.” — Winston Churchill
“Not only does the Charter Organization (United Nations) not prevent future wars, but it makes it practically certain that we shall have future wars, and as to such wars it takes from us (the United States) the power to declare them to choose the side on which we shall fight, to determine what forces and military equipment we shall use in war, and to control and command our sons who do the fighting.” — J. Ruben Clark, Jr., former Under-Secretary of State and Ambassador to Mexico, who was widely recognized as one of our nation’s foremost international lawyers, from book entitled The United Nations Today
“A nation can survive its 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 whispers 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 arguments, 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 42 B. C.
“Creeds must disagree: it is the whole fun of the thing. If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit; but, obviously, we must argue. Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence. To say that I must not deny my opponent’s faith is to say I must not discuss it... It is absurd to have a discussion on Comparative Religions if you don’t compare them.” — G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
“[J]udicial verbicide is calculated to convert the Constitution into a worthless scrap of paper and to replace our government of laws with a judicial oligarchy.” — Senator Sam Ervin
“The heritage of labor unions comes from the church and the mighty Wesleyan revivals of the eighteenth century. Social liberty for the working classes began when a Christian leader, Lord Shaftesbury, in the face of bitter family opposition, led a lifelong crusade for better working conditions, shorter hours, more pay, and fair treatment for the working man.” — Billy Graham
“Life is a guided tour through the dismal landscape of our own inadequacies.” — William Norman Grigg
“Life is a humiliating experience.” — Daniel McGavin Hansen
“The failure of government schools is not caused by a lack of money; it is the consequence of monopoly.” — Patrick Henry Hansen
“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people” — John F. Kennedy
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” — C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The people are the masters of both Congress and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it!” — Abraham Lincoln
“Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.” — Abraham Lincoln
It does not surprise me that the so-called infidels and atheists should despise and oppose the doctrine of God’s absolute and universal sovereignty, but when I see men and women who claim to believe and receive God’s Word so vehemently hate, deny and oppose this grand doctrine, a teaching which is of the very essence of Godhood, I find it to be both monstrous and blasphemous. Yet the majority of churchgoers in our generation fall into this category. They have a god who is no God at all! Their puny god is like a water faucet which they turn on and off at their pleasure. But it is a truth to be known and declared, that there is no true worship except at the throne of His Sovereign Majesty, the exalted, reigning Christ of God.
One man said, “The whole tendency of irreligion and of false worship is, by degrees, to bring the minds of men to regard one thing after another as without or beyond the control of the Almighty. Idolaters ascribe the phenomena of rain and lightening and storms to their false gods. The impiety of countries nominally Christian ascribes the same effects to natural causes.” It seems that men will go to any means to escape the inescapable truth of the sovereignty of God!
Another man says, and truly so, “Any just estimate of the love and grace of God is vastly heightened by the fact that He is infinitely great, and that His condescension is unspeakable. Nor is it possible for us to maintain in purity, either the doctrines or worship of God, if we lose sight of His unsearchable greatness. If men have low conceptions of the glorious nature of God, any semblance of piety they may manifest is deceptive.” I repeat, true worship is only found before Him who sits upon His throne of grace! — Maurice Montgomery, Pastor Bible Baptist Church Madisonville, Kentucky
“When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.” — Wm. Shakespeare
“We are bound to interpret the Constitution in the light of the law as it existed at the time it was adopted.” — Mattox v. U.S., 156 US 237, 243.
“It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.” — Joseph A. Schumpeter, 1942.
John Swinton, the former chief of staff of THE NEW YORK TIMES, called by his peers, “The Dean of his profession”, was asked in 1953 to give a toast before the New York Press Club. He rose and gave this toast.:
There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print.
I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
The business of the Journalist is to destroy truth; To lie outright; To pervert; To vilify; To fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.
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