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- From: aultj@rpi.edu (Jim Ault)
- Subject: Re: Presidential quote...
- In-Reply-To: mjamroz@casbah.acns.nwu.edu's message of Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:57:07 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:37:36 GMT
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- Here's a few of my favorites:
-
- A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday,
- does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do.
- We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we
- came from or what we have been about.
- -Woodrow Wilson
-
-
- "We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon
- the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of
- all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of
- self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern
- ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to
- the Ten Commandments of God."
- - James Madison
-
-
- "... Religion ... [is] the basis and foundation of government ...
- before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he
- must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe."
- - James Madison
-
-
- "No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand
- which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United
- States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an
- independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of
- providential agency.... We ought to be no less persuaded that the
- propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that
- disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has
- ordained."
- - George Washington, in his first Inaugural Address
-
-
- "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with
- human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice,
- ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our
- Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is
- designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly
- inadequate for any other."
- - John Adams
-
-
- On September 19, 1796, George Washington bade farewell to Congress.
- Immensely popular with the people (who were already calling him
- the Father of the Country), he now made it unequivocally clear
- how important he felt was the importance of Church upon State:
-
- "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political
- prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports....
- And 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."
- - September 19, 1796,
- George Washington bidding farewell to Congress.
-
-
- "God who gave us life gave us liberty.Can the liberties of a nation
- be sure when we remove their only firm basis, a conviction in the
- minds of the people, that these liberties are the gift of God?
- That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I
- tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just; that His
- justice cannot sleep forever, that revolution of the wheel of
- fortune, a change of situation, is among the possible events; that
- it may become probable by supernatural influence! The Almighty
- has no attribute which can take side with us in that event."
- - Thomas Jefferson
- --
- Jim Ault, ITS Systems Programmer, aultj@rpi.edu <><
-
- "The Social Democratic government on Friday began dismantling the welfare state
- it built, proposing sharp cuts in benefits and state jobs to stop the country's
- economic decline." -- AP Stockholm, Sweden 10/26/90
- Too bad the US Congress doesn't read the news, it could learn something.
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