It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here. Alan Keyes More Quotes by Alan Keyes More Quotes From Alan Keyes I want to see my party achieve victory based on what we have to offer this country and our ability to offer it with integrity. I don't want to see us achieve victory based on the fact that we are better at rigging the game than other people. Alan Keyes party integrity country I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising sun of a new moral dedication in America, or we're going to lose the struggle for that moral renewal, throw away the basic principles on which our life and civilization is based, and head toward a new century that will make the 20th century look like a dress rehearsal for evil. Alan Keyes dedication struggle civilization We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free. Alan Keyes education country children In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defence when it’s attacked. Since it encompasses every able-bodied person, it does not refer to those—such as the police, the military, or even the National Guard—who formally compose the official defence forces of the nation. Every citizen able and willing to act in an emergency becomes a potential defender against attacks aimed at the general population. Alan Keyes military mean people In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves. Alan Keyes homosexual owners slave A conservative party that reshapes its self-presentation according to the suggestions of the liberal media, of course, may very well get what such lack of courage deserves. Having been told by their opponents for years that the key to Republican victory was a softening of the message and more smiles, Republicans have now apparently taken a big dose of this medicine. One might counsel more caution in accepting medicine from one's enemies. Alan Keyes liberal-media party taken Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our. Alan Keyes success-or-failure leader hands Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients. Alan Keyes structure clients people The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all created equal and endowed by the Creator, God, with our unalienable rights. Alan Keyes creator-god biblical rights A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged by eyes of unchanging truth, by a will that is the real measure of what is right, and therefore of what is good. Alan Keyes eye real character It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free. Alan Keyes beast bars men I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois. Alan Keyes nominations illinois republican Politics must be founded on the solid faith of God almighty Alan Keyes almighty [T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave this nation birth, are older than anything else in the country's soul, and yet retain the power to make us young again with the vigor of virtue and the zeal for justice. Alan Keyes justice country people If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship in our republic. Alan Keyes foundation religious justice Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity. Alan Keyes rights would-be order We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce.... The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens....And as our Founders taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of tyranny in America. Alan Keyes taught-us law america Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty. Alan Keyes tyrants tired people God's irony, that in order to fight and defeat the threat of terrorism, we shall have to be clear about the principle of justice that allows us to understand what is evil in terrorism. And that principle of justice is the claim of justice that is inherent in every innocent human life. But if that claim was there in the Twin Towers, if it was there on the airplanes that those terrorists attacked, you explain to me why it is not there in the womb! Alan Keyes airplane fighting order When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom; we have surrendered its only real meaning, and we will not be free again until we get it back. Alan Keyes government real essence
