Political Quotes

“I thank Congresswoman Miller for hosting this important initiative tonight. After ratifying the Constitution in 1789, the Founders had the wisdom to compose and pass the Bill of Rights in 1791 to further protect Americans from a potentially oppressive Federal Government. They believed that we needed to codify into law, in fact, into the highest law of the land, the enumeration of certain rights, God-given rights, for which it was the specific responsibility of the Federal Government to ensure and to protect. The Bill of Rights did not begin with the right to free speech, to a free press, to assemble, to petition our government, to keep and bear arms, or even the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. No. The first enshrined protected right was the freedom of religion, the free exercise thereof, and the freedom from a government- established religion. Founders understood that the most important, most precious, and most fundamental right is the right to freely believe or not to believe, to worship or not to worship, and to exercise or practice our faith or not to do so. Throughout human history and across every corner of the globe, mankind has exercised the God-created yearning to reconcile with his creator. Mankind has wrestled with the purpose of life and the question of the afterlife. Sadly and unfortunately, those questions cannot be asked freely and those rights cannot be practiced freely in many parts of the world today.…”