Moral Power

"We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, we need more culture. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. If the foundation be firm, the foundation will stand." —Calvin Coolidge



"The Left wants your children. It's committed to liberating them from parental authority and Judeo-Christian morality—to build a world that very much resembles a Roman orgy or, worse, San Francisco. The courts are determined to abolish the family. Citizens who haven't been neutered should be marching on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, with flaming brands in hand, carrying tar and feathers. At a conference on judicial tyranny, a gentleman was heard to remark: 'Most of these people just want to impeach judges. I want to impale them!' Where's Vlad Tepes when you really need him?" —Don Feder



"We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it." —George Washington




"Sometimes, even empty symbolism can be harmful. Unfortunately, quite a few voters in San Francisco don't seem to realize that. If they did, they might not have approved Proposition I, a non-binding resolution that claims the city opposes allowing U.S. military recruiters in their public schools. Legally, the measure changes nothing, but it sends our service members a troubling message: You're not welcome here. What a profound misstep now, with our country at war and the military as critical as it's ever been...There are almost a million brave men and women in our military. They are all volunteers, protecting their fellow Americans and asking for very little in return. The least we can do, especially during the holidays, is support them. San Francisco, are you listening?" —Ed Feulner



"France always thought it had one last resort, one ready strategy for fending off the rage of its Arab street: beyond avoidance lay appeasement. No country in the West has done more to cultivate world Arab opinion, to appease Arab terrorists, to ostentatiously oppose American Middle East policy (Iraq above all), to champion the signal Arab cause of Palestine. It was no accident that Yasser Arafat chose Paris as his place to die—Paris, after Jerusalem, his second holiest city. Paris burns anyway. As the French seem to learn every 70 years, appeasement does not work. It merely whets the appetite." —Charles Krauthammer



"Today...we have the centralized Department of Education at the federal level. In providing the 'right to an education,' it regulates our nation's colleges in the closest detail... Since September 11, 2001, defense spending in the U.S. has risen almost 60 percent; spending on higher education has risen more than 200 percent. What do we get for this money? No learning. It is notorious that college graduates today know little to nothing of the history of our country or its constitutional meaning. If you doubt this, ask a senior a few questions about the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. Nor does the money buy political support for the party that has voted these massively increased subsidies. It is notorious that the beneficiaries of federal aid to higher education, namely those who work in colleges, support the other party by embarrassing margins. Nor do we get patriotism. In fact, a consortium of colleges is suing the federal government right now because they object only to the requirement that military recruiters be admitted to their campuses as a condition of receiving federal aid. Already these colleges are abiding thousands of pages of regulation. They object to this specific one. Perhaps they have forgotten that Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution—which enumerates the powers of Congress—mentions defense eight times. Education is not mentioned at all." —Larry Arnn




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