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[TChris]

Thank you!

When you read Ezra Taft Benson's words and the words of the Founding Fathers he quotes, you realize just how far we, as a nation, have strayed from the correct principles of government.

Just imagine, for a minute, where the USA would be today if it did now and had then remained true to the principles contained in the Constitution!

What we have lost is the difference between where we are and where we could have been. I believe that loss is great.

[George W. Bush]

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Nice article by President Eisenhower's SecAg, circa 1968. He champions limited government and the Constitution and tells why it's wrong to embrace just "a little socialism" in order to meet needs.

Clearly, the man was a prophet.

It's important to remember who and what the Republican party always was. In this sense, Ron Paul isn't sponsoring a revolution, he's advocating a return to the historic principles of our party. And the reason that young people find in Dr. Paul such a revolutionary figure is that so many of them have never heard of Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater or William F. Buckley.

The revolution we seek is, simply, a return to the greatness of the Republican party.

[maine-iac7]

Unlike the political opportunist, the true statesman values principle above popularity, and works to create popularity for those political principles which are wise and just...

the doctrine of separation of church and state as traditionally interpreted to prohibit the establishment of an official national religion. But I am opposed to the doctrine of separation of church and state as currently interpreted to divorce government from any formal recognition of God. The current trend strikes a potentially fatal blow at the concept of the divine origin or our rights, and unlocks the door for an easy entry of future tyranny. If Americans should ever come to believe that their rights and freedoms are instituted among men by politicians and bureaucrats, then they will no longer carry the proud inheritance of their forefathers, but will grovel before their masters seeking favors and dispensations

Don't let's let anyone know that Benson was not only LDS (Mormon) but served his last years as the President of the church...

[Abcdefg]

Not another Constitution loving kook! </sarc>

[Eric Blair 2084]

The proper role of Gubmint is not very complicated:

Ensure a properly functioning free market economy that allows people to acquire STUFF for their family

Provide a strong armed forces to prevent foreign enemies from invading and taking our STUFF or blowing up our STUFF

Provide law enforcement and criminal justice to prevent other citizens from taking our STUFF or hurting us or our family

Guard the border to make sure illegal immigrants don't come in here and try to get STUFF

Build roads, highways, bridges and other transportation infrastructure so that we can move our STUFF from one place to another

Hire a limited number of bureaucrats to keep track of our STUFF