“What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.” StatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesMediaMilitaryIndependentIndependencePressesBrilliantSeparationBranchesExecutivesCiviliansJudicialCentral BanksSeparation Of PowersSystems Of GovernmentJudicial BranchIndependent Media Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age.” BelieveHas BeensStatesAgeChoicesCoursesReadingI BelieveUnitedEducationKnowledgePracticeUnited StatesLearningStudentsCollegeParticularAuthorityContrarySufficientBranchesApplicationDestinedVocationExclusiveLecturesAcademyVaryHarvardQualificationsFree Thought Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“Most of us agree that the United Nations is the vanguard of a foreign invasion and must be driven from our shores. Liberalism - Progressivism - all forms of left wing collectivism, are equally alien to the Founders' America and must be extirpated, root and branch, laughter and derision being the most effective weapons. Look at the way they have reduced Hillary Clinton to an insignificant greasy spot on the pages of history, turned Albert Gore into an object of merriment, and are accomplishing the same for Barry and Micky Obama.” WayLooksAmericaFormLeftNationsUnitedObjectsWeaponsPagesLaughterRootsAgreeWingsClintonDrivenSpotsAliensBranchesLiberalismShoreFoundersUnited NationsInsignificantInvasionGoreCollectivismLeft WingProgressivismMerrimentDerisionVanguardRoots And Branches Author:L. Neil Smith
“Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.” HeartStillsDreamPastYoungJoyGrowthMemoriesUnitedOur LivesSceneChainsBlissBranchesSilverLinkedChordsVinesSprungFostering Author:Alan Cooper
“I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch of the Catholic revival. There is an intellectual rigor that is very much valued there and that I was in awe of.” FoundUnitedIntellectualCatholicBranchesAweMidstRevivalRigor Author:Regina Doman
“Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.” StatesGovernmentSchoolUnitedUnited StatesCourtBranchesFederal Government Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“Unreason is now ascendant in the United States - in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.” WorldBelieveStatesProblemGovernmentSchoolUnitedUnited StatesIgnoranceEvolutionDegreesPercentCourtSatanBranchesFederal GovernmentBellySuperpower Author:Sam Harris