Selected Quotes
The following quotes are reprinted in
Health & Education Reform: Freedom’s “Voluntary” Demise?
Published by Life’s Silver Linings, Inc.
“Morality is defined as the condition of conforming with right principles. It pits right against wrong. To ‘legislate’ means to make a law. Law imposes rules of conduct and enforces them with authority. What law has ever been enacted by any government in the history of man that has not named something wrong and its opposite right? Every law establishes and legislates morality. What today’s critics are saying is, ‘We don’t want God to have anything to do with today’s morality. We want to determine what is right and wrong without God’–America has become the battleground between the world’s two oldest religions. The first religion to appear in the history of mankind worships God. The second worships man. In America, the first is expressed primarily by Christianity. The second is Humanism. It is not a question of whether morality can or should be legislated. It is a question of which religious guidelines will undergird the legislation; religious guidelines that deify God, or religious guidelines that deify man.”
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania - 1815
(Commonwealth vs. Sharpless & Others)
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“America is great because America is good. If America ceases to be good, it will cease to be great.”
- Alexis De Tocqueville
A French statesman & political philosopher.
Author of Democracy In America (1835-1840)
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“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformitY and then to despotism.”
- Barry Goldwater
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“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding”
-Louis Brandeis, 1928
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“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”
- President Abraham Lincoln
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“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
- President John Adams
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Etched in stone over the Senate chamber is the motto:
“Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.”
If Medicaid is for the poor, then why are Schools collecting it?
- Marie Smith
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In 1860, as a Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln spoke on the great moral issue of his time: slavery. He addressed those in the Democratic party who thought slavery was wrong, but refused to denounce “all attempts to restrain it”:
“We must not call it wrong in the slave states because it is there; we must not call it wrong in politics because that is bringing morality into politics, and we must not call it wrong in the pulpit because that is bringing politics into religion; we must not bring it into the Tract Society or the other societies, because those are unsuitable places, and there is no single place, according to you, where this wrong thing can properly be called wrong.”
- President Abraham Lincoln
March 6, 1860, Daily Palladium Newspaper
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“A neighborhood is as good as the hearts of the people in it.”
- Marie Smith
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
- Margaret Mead
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“I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind, particularly as you approach college. But, don’t keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.”
- William Bennett
Past Director of the U.S. Department of Education
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“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of governments, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”
- President James Madison
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One of the best ways to help children is not to tax their parents into poverty.
- Marie Smith
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“Most of the students I have talked to say they would have preferred to have been taught about sex at home by their parents.”
- Growing With Your Child: A Parent-Child Approach To Education, a flier of the Clay
County, MO Health Center
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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
- President Thomas Jefferson
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“You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”
- Rev. William J.H. Boetcker
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Among quotes painted over doorways in our nation’s capitol is:
“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”
- Louis Brandeis, 1928
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“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”
- Milton Freidman
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“Although more teens are practicing contraception and doing so more consistently and early, premarital pregnancies continue to rise.”
- Family Planning Perspectives, Sept./Oct. 1980
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“Teen Pregnancies Higher in States That Teach Condom Use”
- The Washington Times, October 9, 1995, pg. A4
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“Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.”
- G.K. Chesterton
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“–(T)he heavy price a person paid for suffering from a disease, plus the heavy price the family of that person paid for caring for that person, plus the price society paid in helping that family through the illness suffered by their loved one, equals the exact price a society must pay to remain humane.”
- Dr. Jerome Lejeune
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“Dr. Lejeune testified concerning the ability to distinguish a four-cell human embryo and a similar chimpanzee embryo. He said if one of his students couldn’t tell the difference, ‘he would fail his exam’.”
“Dr. Jerome Lejeune is [he is now deceased] a Medical Doctor, Doctor in Science, Professor of Fundamental Genetics on the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, France, a Practitioner [as spelled in the source] at I’H Hospital des Enfants Malades, Paris, France, former Professor of Human Genetics at the California Institute of Technology, the discoverer of Down’s Syndrome, Recipient of the Memorial Allen Award Medal, for the discovery of Down’s Syndrome, a member of the American Academy of Arts of Science, the Royal Science of Medicine in London, England, Royal Society of Science in Stockholm, Sweden, the Science Academy in Italy, the Science Academy in Argentina, the Pontifical Academy of Science, the Vatican, the Institute of France of the Academic de Science Morale et Politique, Paris, France and the Academy of Medicine, Paris, France.”
- The Custody Dispute Over Seven Human Embryos
The Testimony of Professor Jerome Lejeune, M.D., Ph.D. Pages 11 & 40.
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“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.”
- P. J. O’Rourke