Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I rise to support the First Amendment as well--as a patriot, as a pastor, as a Member of Congress. Joseph Stalin, an enemy of America, once said it this way: America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within. President Eisenhower, a patriot, said it this way in October of 1954: Atheism substitutes men for the Supreme Creator, and this leads inevitably to domination and dictatorship. We must jealously guard our foundation in faith, for on it rests the ability of the American individual to live and thrive in this blessed land and to be able to help other less fortunate people to achieve freedom and individual opportunity. These we take for granted, but to others they are often only a wistful dream. ``In God We Trust,'' often have we heard the words of this wonderful American motto. Let us make sure that familiarity has not made them meaningless for us. We carry the torch of freedom as a sacred trust for all mankind. We do not believe that God intended the light He created to be put out by men. ____________________”