“If you call yourself an American that means that you have embraced the constitution, because that is what an American is. A citizen of the United States of America is someone who has sworn an oath of allegiance to that document, to the words, to the ideals of that document. Right now we have citizens who don't even understand what that document is.” IfsMeanStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesCitizensRight NowIdealsConstitutionDocumentsUnited States Of AmericaAllegianceOath Author:Scott Ritter
“In America, one of the great liberal documents of the world is the Declaration of Independence. One of the great conservative documents of the world is the Constitution of the United States. We need both documents to build a country. One to get it started - liberal. And the other to help maintain the structure over the years - conservative.” WorldNeedsYearsCountryStatesHelpingAmericaUnitedUnited StatesConstitutionIndependenceStructureConservativeDocumentsDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceConstitution Of The United StatesGreat ConservativeGreat Liberal Author:Jim Rohn
“Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.” WayShouldYearsBelieveLooksStatesBlessedPhotographAffairTeenagerDocumentsLooking GoodCommon GoodUncommon Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights of citizens ought to be protected with every power and resource of the state, and a government that does any less is false to the teachings of that great document - false to the name American.” MenDoeStatesGovernmentNamesRightsTeachingDutyOughtCitizensGloryResourcesIndependenceDoctrineProtectedDocumentsDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceCorresponding Author:Calvin Coolidge
“Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.” ShouldMeanDoeMadeStatesPressesAvailableJournalismJournalistDocumentsScandalFreedom Of The PressInvestigative Journalism Author:Otto Schily
“Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set of laws for governing an empire, prescribed death for anyone who harbored a fugitive or otherwise helped a slave to escape. The relationship between the law and bondage goes back even farther: Indeed, the oldest extant legal documents don't concern the sale of land, houses, or even animals, but slaves.” KnowsFirstsStatesFormLawHouseNationsAnimalLandConcernSlaverySlaveCodeEmpiresDocumentsBondageGovernanceGoverningFugitive Book:The Culture of Make Believe Source: The Culture of Make Believe