This is one of my favorites. From Alexander Tyler. No, he wasn't writing about the United States. This quote is well over one hundred years old. Tyler was writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic. (Neal Boortz)


"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."

http://boortz.com/more/quotes.html

"Without God there could be no American form of government
nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being
is the... most basic expression of Americanism." --Dwight
D. Eisenhower

"There is no getting around the reality that candidates
who merely 'happen' to be Christian and make no connection between
their faith and public policy will produce a nation that 'happens'
to be fully secularized." --R. Albert Mohler, Jr

"While America's military strength is important, let me add here
that I have always maintained that the struggle now going on for
the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or
military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one;
at root, it is a test of moral will and faith." --Ronald Reagan

This is the start of my Blog. I hope it will work, and prove to be something that
others are interested in, also.
gm