Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God. Alan Keyes More Quotes by Alan Keyes More Quotes From Alan Keyes The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing. Alan Keyes assault-weapons doing-nothing gun Christ would not vote for Barack Obama because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved. Alan Keyes usa vote way Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance civil rights in this country. Alan Keyes rights doe country How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb? Alan Keyes liberty blessing doe Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life. Alan Keyes movement organization leader The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master, it's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity. Alan Keyes dignity masters humanity Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed which says that those rights are the consequences of our mother's will. Alan Keyes abortion rights mother When are Christian folks going to remember that every time you call yourself a Christian, you invoke the name of God, and that if you then walk a walk that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, cast a vote that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, then you are taking the name of the Lord your God in vain? Alan Keyes christian names doe The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed. Alan Keyes tariffs government years Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality. Alan Keyes rights reality commitment Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come. Alan Keyes freedom responsibility firsts It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there. Alan Keyes discipline made heart The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control. Alan Keyes gun self law The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well. Alan Keyes judging opportunity people At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character--an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people. Alan Keyes strong roots character I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent the people there, so I certainly wouldn't imitate it. Alan Keyes federalism clinton people The person you call 'President Obama" and I frankly refuse to call him that... at the moment, he is somebody who is kind of an 'alleged usurper' who is alleged to be someone who is occupying that office without constitutional warrant to do so. Alan Keyes usurpers office president In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn't say that all are created equal "if you so choose." It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will. Alan Keyes principles rights men The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors - these are the things that are killing people today in ways that the slave whips and the overseers couldn't. Alan Keyes selfishness political people There was a time when most Americans held to the notion that the only sure and secure foundation for freedom was God - the Source of unalienable rights and the Policeman stationed in every human heart... But apparently, we don't believe in that sort of thing anymore. Alan Keyes religious christian believe
