Category Archives: Politics

Good Quote 6-5-19

Evansville “When federal courts strike down religious expression in the states,  they are willfully perverting the policy of what the Framers of the first Amendment intended: complete federal nonintervention in religious issues.” Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D.

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Good Quote 10-24-18

Budapest II. kerület “A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the individual and cannot really know freedom.” Friedrich Hayek

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Good Quote 10-18-17

“The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty loving, God-fearing who knew their rights, and possessed the courage to dare to maintain them… The Continental Congress was not only composed of great … Continue reading

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Good Quote 10-4-17

“[W]ithout natural law there would be neither virtue nor vice, neither the reward of goodness nor the punishment of evil: there is no fault, no guilt, where there is no law. Everything would have to depend on human will, and, … Continue reading

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Good Quote 12-9-15

“The wall of separation between church and state is important and should be maintained.   However, it should not be extended and reinterpreted as the separation of God and state. There is nothing in our Constitution or its amendments to indicate that … Continue reading

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Good Quote 9-17-15

“On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to  the time when the constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform … Continue reading

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Good Quote 5-6-15

“Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override…the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interest.” John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

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Conservative vs Liberal

  What follows is a fascinating quote about society, conservatives versus liberals, written in 1904.  So much of it is true is today, over 110 years ago. “The Institutions of this country, like the Institutions of all other countries, are but half-truths; … Continue reading

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Good Quote 7-4-12

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.  We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream.  It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”- Ronald Reagan Enjoy your 4th … Continue reading

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We Are the Red States

by Cindy Bleuler Tucker I wrote this in November 2004, after the election.  The political pundits were asking “Who are the Red States ? Who are these people?” This was my response.  My fifteen minutes of fame was when Sean … Continue reading

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