Free Republic

Franklin D. Roosevelt “The Economic Bill of Rights” Excerpt from 11 January 1944 message to Congress on the State of the Union It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure. This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its...

Addressing the Herzliya Conference this morning, Dr. Pat Robertson, Chairman, Christian Broadcast Network warned that a sovereign Palestinian state would fatally compromise Israel's security since a sovereign Palestinian state would have the sovereign right to control the entry of weapons and personnel into the area. Dr. Robertson warned that it would be a mistake to ignore Israel's spiritually based right to exist, saying that Israel's spiritual right to exist is an essential right, not subject to the vagaries of world politics and that there is a huge Christian population around the world that recognizes and supports Israel's spiritual right to...