Saturday, January 30, 2010

A RUDDERLESS SHIP OF STATE -- WITHOUT MORALITY

By Chuck Baldwin

January 29, 2010
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin565.htm

In Patrick Henry's immortal "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" speech, he said, "[I]t is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth."

Our second President, John Adams, said, "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."


Thomas Jefferson (the author of the Declaration of Independence and our third President) said, "Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others."


Are we really worthy of freedom?

Read this very important key article here:
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin565.htm

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