America

Talks

Quotes

Our success as a society depends not on what happens in the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

Man’s laws must be based on God’s law

Religion must speak out when government is against the law of God.

Government can’t give us anything without depriving us of something else – Henry Hazlitt in The Freeman

America did not invent human rights.  In a very real sense, it is the other way around, Human rights invented America. – Jimmy Carter

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong – Harry Weinberger in New York Post

What is the essence of America?  Finding and maintaining that perfect delicate balance between freedom “to” and freedom “from.” – Marilyn vos Savant

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for.  We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years.  We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.  If we opened the floodgates tomorrow, the whole world would pour in here.  Last year we took in more than a million people from other nations.  Now, if we’re as bad as we say we are, why are they coming here?  To be corrupted, to be dumb, to be brutes – the way we describe ourselves to others?  No, they’re coming here because we’re excellent, because we offer freedom, because we offer opportunity. – Ray Bradbury

Theodore Bikel – “We keep using ‘melting pot’ to describe America, but that concept weakens every ethnic strain that is culturally unique.  This country was never meant to be a melting pot, but a kaleidoscope, with each particle clearly delineated and contributing to the beauty of the whole.  We should encourage our many heritages rather than dilute them.”

The genius of the Constitution is not only the work of those who labored in the heat for4 ½ months, it is also the genius of the people who adapted to it. The Constitution endures because people wish to.  The same document in other nations might long be forgotten. – Jethro K. Lieberman

Put the post office in charge of the inflation problem.  They wouldn’t solve it, but they’d certainly slow it down.

Patriotism is not a spectator sport.