The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is… the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. -Adlai Stevenson, speech, Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. – George Eliot, Felix Holt, Chapter 5
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.” – Earnest Benn
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute. – Abraham Lincoln
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous. – ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.
“Take our politicians: they’re a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. “
–Saul Bellow
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Encourage people to learn about our Constitution and
the freedoms it preserves and to have faith in the
Judaeo-Christian principles upon which it is based so
that when those freedoms are threatened action may be
taken to protect them.
In support of our mission statement, here is our
Three-Fold Purpose of the blog, In God We Trust.
1. Defining and spreading an understanding of our
Constitutional freedoms for the purpose of sustaining
those freedoms.
2. Identifying threats to the unity of the
conservative base, and helping people to resist the
pressure to compromise values as an answer to
political tensions.
3. Spreading the message that the key for healing the
nation is showing respect, tolerance and kindness as
we accept the political differences of others.
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