“The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. … How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers?” – John Adams (1778)
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Since September 11, an entire generation of young Americans has gained new understanding of the value of freedom and its cost and duty and its sacrifice. The battle is now joined on many fronts. We will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail.” – G.W. Bush
“Politics is fluid, elections are multitudinous, and voter behavior is often too complicated and subtle to be reduced to group identity. Ethnicity doesn’t determine elections — ideas do. And as Democrats have been realizing to their chagrin, the ideas embodied in Republican campaign messaging turn out to have a powerful appeal to many foreign-born and nonwhite voters.” – Jeff Jacoby
“Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.”
– James Madison
“The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
“If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws — the first growing out of the last.” – Alexander Hamilton (1794)
Long may she wave, longer still may we pray, keeping in mind our humbleness before the grave and ever mindful of the freedoms and liberties hard won in our day!
Is Reverence So Alien?
by Michael Doyle
And there it is again
Stated with righteous persistence
Trust is the necessary bond
Behind peaceful coexistence
Too may ills bleed from greed
Arising in forms of aggression
Peace is easy enough to heed
Where love answers the questions
Conflict splinters away all unity
Where negativity has come to rule
You might call it somehow serendipity
When life takes us to school
As we find it hard to believe in anyone
It's hard to have faith in redemption
After all the evil this world has done
Yet, we might find peacefulness in contemplation
If we keep the light inside burning bright
Despite the darkness's vapid consumption
And to our beliefs we cling on hard and tight
Waiting for goodness to find its way to resumption
(c) June 14, 2021 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (14 Jun 1811-1896)
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