Posted on 06/24/2022 5:38:24 AM PDT by Perseverando
On NOVEMBER 18, 1992, The New York Times printed Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice's statement: "The less we emphasize the Christian religion the further we fall into the abyss of poor character and chaos in the United States of America."
The original draft of George Washington's Inaugural Address, 1789, included the following: "Should ... those incited by the lust of power and prompted by the supineness (willingness to lay down) or venality (open to bribery) of their constituents, over leap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve to show, that no compact among men (however provident in its construction and sacred in its ratification) can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable (impenetrable) ... no wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other."
Justice Joseph Story wrote in Commentaries on the Constitution (Second Edition 1851): “Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.”
John Adams addressed the officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts, October 11, 1798: "While it is rioting in rapine (open violence) and insolence (insulting speech), this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world; because we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and
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character, religion, virtue, moral ...
character -your word is your bond.
religion- that is up to the individual.
virtue -kindness, compassion, trust have no copyrights.
moral- do not steal, lie, murder or cheat.
how’s that?
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