America’s founding ideals are under attack — but the words that built our nation still hold the power to defend it. The Good, The Bad, & The Hope We Have: A Treasury of Useful Quotations is a bold and inspiring collection of the most powerful words ever spoken in defense of faith, freedom, and the…
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While The Battle Was Raging, Our President Was Praying
This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, The Good, The Bad, & The Hope We Have: A Treasury of Useful Quotations: On June 6, 1944, during the Invasion of Normandy, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a national radio address. He led the nation in prayer, asking God to help our troops defeat the Nazis….
Sinful And Tyrannical
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” – Thomas Jefferson
The Right To Be Left Alone
“The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.” – Louis D. Brandeis
To Protect Us From Ourselves
“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” -Ronald Reagan
Concealed Transactions
Patrick Henry said, “The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”
The Last Stand on Earth
Ronald Reagan said, “If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”
Those Determined To Be Free
John f. Kennedy said, “The greatest revolution in the history of man, past, present and future is the revolution of those determined to be free.”
Liberty Once Lost, Is Gone Forever
John Adams said, “But a Constitution of government once changed from freedom can never be restored. Liberty once lost, is gone forever.”
Our Rights Come From God
And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebearers fought is still at issue around the globe, the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. – John F. Kennedy