"You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation."

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Source : "PBS' Newshour" with Jim Lehrer, www.keyesarchives.com. December 20, 1999.

Alan Keyes

#Rights Quotes #Choices Quotes #Independence Quotes

“We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body for its own sake. Look at overweight executives headed for heart attacks on the way to getting their pictures in Fortune or anorexic models suffering slow starvation on their way to getting their pictures in Vogue. Protecting ego is the general case.”

Source : Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.65, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.”
“Lord, make me a blessing to someone today”

Source : Jan Karon (2006). “The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.”, p.160, Penguin
“Whether D.C. residents will be full-fledged citizens seems to be a case worthy of the Supreme Court.”
“Don't take your bad shots home with you.”

Source : Anthony David Lema, Tony Lema (1966). “Champagne Golf”
“Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.17, Transaction Publishers
“Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate....It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs....”
“All light is available light.”

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