Political Quotes

“Today I rise to commemorate the 220th anniversary of the adoption of the Bill of Rights to our U.S. Constitution. Some of our most basic freedoms and governing principles are laid out in this precious document. The amendments listed were meant to protect our individual liberties and our private property. They serve as a constant reminder that our Nation was meant for its citizens to have liberty, with very little government intrusion into their lives. Today's modern government has, sadly, strayed very far away from the vision that our Founding Fathers had when they ratified the Bill of Rights. It seems like every day we lose a little bit more of our freedom to the ideals of Big Government and to the standards of socialism. In Hosea 4:6, God says, ``My people are destroyed from a lack of knowledge.'' We have a tremendous lack of knowledge in this Nation about the principles that our Founding Fathers gave us in the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and we are being destroyed because those foundational principles are being eroded day by day here in Congress, by Presidents, and by the Federal court system. Please read the U.S. Constitution. Read the Bill of Rights. Teach them to our children and to our grandchildren so that we can come together and demand a constitutionally limited government, as our Founding Fathers intended.…”