Posted on 10/24/2007 7:24:43 AM PDT by Loud Mime
“The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.
James Madison (Virginia Resolutions, 24 December 1798)
And as the power weilded by government increases, why is the accountibility decreasing, along with the politicians’ respect for the original design?
Benjamin Franklin
“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. “
Benjamin Franklin
And, here it is:
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
Thomas Jefferson - - letter to Connecticut Baptists in Danbury Link
The funny thing is that Jefferson “wall of separation” meant the exact opposite of what most people today are told it is meant. It was intended that the government would NOT interfere with the churches. It never, ever was intended to shield the government from religious values.
I’ve always thought it separated the government and religion; I never thought it took religion out of government.
And Jefferson never took out the clause “...nor prohibit the free exercise thereof...”
How come "progressives" forget the second part?
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington
I like your quote....
Once the concept of “GOD” is removed, the highest level of accountibility shifts to man himself. Man becomes the ultimate authority. Those with gigantic egos find this a wonderful power.
Remember Bill Clinton referring to “my god?, as in “my god believes this.” His meaning was up to debate, but it was not the biblical God we know. It was a god who allowed false testimony, infidelities to family and country, and the gassing of innocent children. I don’t see that as a god...it’s the opposite.
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