Posted on 04/24/2007 8:25:02 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum
Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge
...Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan, 1975
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln
If there is any ideological fanaticism in American political life, it is to be found among the enemies of freedom on the left or right-- those who would sacrifice principle to theory, those who worship only the god of political, social and economic abstractions, ignoring the realities of everyday life. They are not conservatives. Ronald Reagan
All Politics is Local
A great post and needed.
Also including quotes from Reagan who is bashed by some here on FR.
I worked at his headquarters here in San Diego when he first ran for Governor. Saw him many times in person and same when he was Pres. Asked him for his autograph which he gave me.
Yes, a Conservative strong on Defense, National Security, and social issues needed in ‘08
If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.
Ronald Reagan
Pledged and bumped.
I so pledge.
Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.
James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791
I Pledge!!!
“If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
Samuel Adams
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god.
Cicero
This would be a good thread for others to ping any lists they have. I’m new so I don’t have a ping list, but others should if they have one.
I like that pledge. I'll take it.
You’re in luck.. things will happen just that way...
Everything is the best it can be.. just perfect..
American politics must happen this way...
Last day(latter times) prophecy is rolling along nicely..
God is NOT filing his fingernails as earth goes into the dumpster..
Actually Abraham would probably envy you’re own position to watch it all happen..
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Bumping those sentiments, FRiend.
I don't see how He could make a mistake!
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
“There is no question that we have failed to live up to the dreams of the founding fathers many times and in many places. Sometimes we do better than others. But all in all, the one thing we must be on guard against is thinking that because of this, the system has failed. The system has not failed. Some human beings have failed the system.”
Ronald Reagan
But We should always remember that a free Constitution of civil Government cannot be purchased at too dear a rate as there is nothing, on this side (of) the New Jerusalem, of equal importance to Mankind.
John Adams
True in 1980, true today:
I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose. We have come together here because the American people deserve better from those to whom they entrust our nation’s highest offices...
Ronald Reagan
He added: and we stand united in our resolve to do something about it.
Let US stand united in our resolve. This is my prayer. This is my pledge, to join with those like minded to be united in resolve to do something about it.
Part of our problem today is we don’t expect/demand/call for virtue in our leaders. When that’s the reality, we get things like the gay agenda forcing our kids towards an understanding that what we believe is immoral is just perfectly natural, and many other things.
James Madison wisely noted: “There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent an sudden usurpation.”
And William Penn stated: “If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him....Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”
The totalitarianism of the PC movement is a prime example of that.
John Adams warned us in 1776:
“The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure, than they have it now, they may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty.”
Virtue, a well-defined moral sense of natural law and a willingness to see behind the screeds of those who want to call good bad and bad good counts.
Pelosi, Reid, and even Guiliani show by their past and present actions that they are quite deficient in these areas. We need to stand tall, and work for leaders who have virtue in their hearts as well as a willingness to lead.
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