AMERICA NEEDS VIRTUE Former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett wrote a book on virtues -- The Book of Virtues -- to renew the teaching of virtue to our children. In his best-seller, he explains…
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SERMONS OR SONGS Devote all your life to the writing of wise sermons and hardly anyone ever hears much about them. But sit down with a scrap of paper, whip out a few lines of…
SHOT DOWN BUT NOT KNOCKED OUT Captain Scott O'Grady is an American pilot shot down over Bosnia by a Bosnian-Serb ground-to-air missile -- After six days of hiding in enemy territory, he was rescued by…
JUSTICE SCALIA ON SOCIETAL RELIGION Church and state would not be such a difficult subject if religion were, as the Court apparently thinks it to be, some purely personal avocation that can be indulged entirely…
JEFFERSON ON PUBLIC TRUST Thomas Jefferson said: When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. Just remember, we need to take good care of the property!
THE PROBLEM WITH PATRIOTISM Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle,…
CAN'T HIDE IN A HOLE You have to take a position, whether you like it or not. The natural inclination is to hide in a hole for a while. But if you don't talk about…
TALKING OR FIGHTING Jaw, Jaw, Jaw is better than War, War, War. By Winston Churchill, as quoted by Newt Gingrich on June 11, 1995 at a town meeting with President Bill Clinton in Claremont, New…
BOYS NEED HEROES You were my hero, you were the wind beneath my wings... Little boys need a hero... a real life, day to day hero. They need someone who would hug them and protect…
GOOD LAWS REQUIRE GOOD PEOPLE Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. By Samuel Adams
TO OUR FEET OR TO OUR SENSES We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it... not so…
PHILIPPINE DEMOCRACY In 1986, Corazon C Aquino, the president of the Philippine Islands addressed the United States Congress with the following appeal for U. S. support for the free democracy of her country: "You have…
REMEMBER THE GOOD STORIES TOO The lesson of Schindler's List is that one driven, if complicated, hero made a difference during the Holocaust. A ceremony last week in New York made a different point: That…
THE TAXING SIDE OF OUR GOVERNMENT There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide. By I.R.S. Commissioner Mortimer Caplin
I BELIEVE IN AMERICA by William Arthur Ward I believe in America. I believe it became great because of its faith in God, its hope for independence and its love for freedom. I am grateful…
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson has written concerning the moral state of our modern union: "We demand freedom without restraint, rights without responsibility, choice without consequences, pleasure without pain. We are becoming…
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REAGAN'S MASTERY OF SYMBOLISM When he (Ronald Reagan) declared that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem," he appealed to his countrymen's primordial suspicion of authority. When he talked of…
BEFORE THE FIRST AMENDMENT The time is October 5, 1573. The place, Antwerp, Belgium. Maeyken Wens, an Anabaptist, has been arrested and tortured. Her tongue screwed to her palate to prevent her witness, she is…
AMERICA by Eva Marie Weekley God bless America So the lyrics go; And He has blessed America More than we even know. We look at all the world With big problems, grief, and crime; We…
FAITH TRIUMPHS Writing about the tragedy in Oklahoma, James Wall writes, "Religious faith at its best has never offered easy explanations of evil or simple solutions to it. But as the people of Oklahoma have…
