Ageless wisdom...

"America it is said is to be suffering from intolerance. It is not. It is suffering from tolerance, tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and Chaos, Our country is not nearly so over run with the bigoted, as it is over run with the broadminded. “ (Archbishop Fulton Sheen 1875-1979)

"The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man. . ." James Madison (1751-1836) Letter to Frederick Beasley 1825

"Unless a man's will has a purpose and it is a good one, education will do nothing for him except to fortify his own egotism." (Archbishop Fulton Sheen)

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great Pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. . . And let us indulge with caution the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. . . Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle." Taken from his Farewell Speech on September 19, 1796 (George Washington 1732-1799)

"Communism is both an effect and a judgment on our Western world; an effect because it was born of our unfulfilled Christian duties, our abandonment of the Father's House in favor of materialism; a judgment because it reveals how wrong has been our thinking, how evil have been our deeds." (Archbishop Fulton Sheen)

"Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not only of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all governments and all combinations of human society." John Adams (1735-1826) Letter to Benjamin Rush, Auguest 28, 1811.

"It has been said that some of the great geniuses of the past never read half as much as the mediocre geniuses today, but what they read they understood and incorporated into a deeper dimension of knowledge." (Archbishop Fulton Sheen)

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? I tremble for my Country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) - Notes on the State of Virginia

"Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe." James Madison - Taken from Religious Freedom, A Memorial and Remonstrance