Political Quotes

“Phillip Bobbitt, the author of the ``Shield of Achilles,'' once wrote that if you don't know where you have been, you won't know where you're going, and any road will take you there. Throughout the history of the 20th century, we have seen where people who deny the role of religion within their government--the hells to which they have descended, hells of which Dostoevsky warned a long time ago that all manners of things are possible in the absence of God. It has been said tonight, and rightly so, that the United States, from its founding, has understood a self-evident truth that our liberty comes not from the pen of a government bureaucrat but is written on our hearts by almighty God. It is this self-evident truth that allows us to understand that it is our liberty which has curated the subservient government which exists to protect our God-given rights. I think it is also important that we understand that history is not merely something that happened 200 years ago, 100.”