“Gun control is way too simple an answer. That’s analogous to putting a Band Aid on a severed artery. These mass shootings are symptoms [and] eruptions telling us that there is a subterranean river of spiritual and emotional slime running…

“The left needs to understand this really is an issue of the heart. This is a spiritual rot in this country, a moral issue where we no longer value life.” Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill, commenting on the mass murders in El Paso and Dayton. Source Reference…

“License they mean when they cry, Liberty!” John Milton, (1608-1674) English Poet. Source Reference John Milton Quote

“If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion. The Establishment Clause does not license government to treat religion and those who teach or practice it…

“Former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart noted (in his dissent of Abington Township, 1963) ‘if religious exercises are held to be impermissible activity in schools, religion is placed at an artificial and state-created disadvantage. Permission for such exercises for those…

“God requireth not a uniformity of religion.” Roger Williams, (1603-1684) Anglo-American clergyman, advocate for the separation of church and state, founder of the Rhode Island colony. Source: “A Plea for Religious Liberty” in The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for Cause of…

“[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.” John Locke, (1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist. Source Reference John Locke…

“Your children’s children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept Communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism….

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” George Orwell, Source: George…

“The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.” Michael Korda,…

“We’ve lost the sense of individual responsibility for our problems, and that’s bad enough. But what’s worse, we’re losing faith in our ability to solve our problems. This acquired sense of helplessness is catastrophic, and it has paralyzed large swaths of the…

“Understanding of men can be warped and their affections changed by operations upon their passions and prejudices.” William Henry Harrison, (1773-1841), 9th U. S. President. Source: Inaugural Address, 1841. Source Reference William Henry Harrison Quote