Sunday, May 31, 2009
Founding Principle 4
Without Religion the Government of a Free People Cannot be Maintained.
Many Americans fail to understand how the Founders felt the role of religion would be just as
important in our day as it was in theirs. In 1787 Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance that emphasized the essential need
to teach religion and morality in the schools.
Article
3: Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means
of education shall forever be encouraged.
George
Washington – “Reason and experience both forbid
us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle.”
31 may 09 @ 7:54 am
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Founding Principle 3
The Most Promising Method of Securing A Virtuous and Morally Stable
People is to Elect Virtuous Leaders.
Samuel Adams - “ But neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure
the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend to liberty
of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a
man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.”
30 may 09 @ 9:54 am
Friday, May 29, 2009
Founding Principle 2
"A Free People Cannot Survive Under a Republican Constitution Unless They Remain Virtuous and Morally Strong.”
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As
nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Adams,
known as the father of the Revolution wrote in a letter, “I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent
and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will. It depends on her virtue.” He also said, “
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
James Madison – “Is there no virtue
among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks, no form of government, can render us secure.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical idea.
If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men; so that
we do not depend upon their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them."
George Washington – from his Farewell
Address – “Of all the dispositions and habits
which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute
of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men
and citizens. – Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of
religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution
indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined
education….. reason and experience both forbid us to expect the national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious
principle." (Padover, The Washington papers, pp.
318-19.)
Benjamin Franklin –
“I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom
and virtue. Wise and good men are, in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.”
29 may 09 @ 4:43 pm
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Founding Principle 1
“The only Reliable Basis
for sound Government and just Human Relations is Natural Law.”
Cicero 106-43 BC - Defines Natural
Law as “True Law”“True law is right reason in
agreement with nature. It is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and
averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions…….It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to repeal
any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely. We cannot be freed from its obligations by senate or people,
and we need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it.”
28 may 09 @ 5:29 pm
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Progressivism Doctrine an Abstract Failure
Obama this and Bush that. Is that all people think about in the
political arena? How many of you realize that 95% of Democrat elected officials and 85% of Republican elected officials have
adopted the abstract failure doctrine of progressivism. The 28 principles the founders used in the formation of the Constitution,
that was designed to keep you free and secure have been laid waste. These same principles were not just for the federal system,
but states and local governments. Why are we allowing the wholesale debt slavery to set heavy chains on our future generations?
Don’t you realize that debt secures your slavery?
27 may 09 @ 8:49 pm
