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To: B4Ranch; Las Vegas Ron

Here are a few that might work:

On the Importance of Morality and Religion in Government:
[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion....Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. (Source: John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, Charles Francis Adams, editor (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co. 1854), Vol. IX, p. 229, October 11, 1798.)

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public
liberty and happiness.”

— Samuel Adams (letter to John Trumbull, 16 October 1778)”

Of all the dispositions and habits which least to political
prosperity, Religion and morality are indespensable supports.
In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism who should
labor to subvert these great Pilliars of human happiness.

— George Washington (Farewell Address, 19 September 1796)

“[O]ur ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.”
— Daniel Webster, American Jurist and Senator

“[W]hen People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners,
they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign
Invaders.” —Samuel Adams

And my very favorite:

“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites—in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity;—in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption;—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite is placed somewhere: and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
— Edmund Burke


49 posted on 12/12/2010 4:43:51 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah

This is the one the government is using against us today.

“[W]hen People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.”
—Samuel Adams

I have a hard time imagining a foreign invader taking over the US of A in its entirety because there is too many civilian arms and too many hunters who even though they are older they are good shots.

However the constant pressure against Christianity by the NEA and the Courts is enough evidence that there is a fight underway. Just the idea of a cross these days offends people. There is a lot of churches that don’t have a noticeable cross on the outside of their building.

This preference by cities towards Islam is enough to piss me off big time. Straight Agenda 21.


53 posted on 12/12/2010 5:03:08 PM PST by B4Ranch (Do NOT remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
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