* * * * * * ==============     The following quotes were featured
 * * * * *  ==============         by THE SLING, the official
* * * * * * ==============           monthly publication of
 * * * * *  ==============      THE U.S.TAXPAYERS PARTY OF WIS.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   Quotes of the Month     <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> illustrating the Biblical <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   basis for the guiding   <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>      ideals of our        <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     Founding Fathers      <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

"If magistrates are ministers of God only because the law of God
points out the necessity of such an institution for the good of
mankind, it follows that whenever they pursue measures directly
destructive to the public good, they cease being God's ministers,
they forfeit their right to obedience from the subjects, they
become the pests of society, and the community is under the
strongest obligation of duty both to God and to its own members,
to resist and oppose them, which will be so far from resisting the
ordinance of God that it will be strictly obeying His commands. 
                                  --  Rev. Samuel West


"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure
the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally
corrupt." 
                                  --  Samuel Adams


"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become
corrupt and vicious, they have more need of master."
                                  --  Benjamin Franklin 


"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
                                  -- John Adams


"God, who in former ages, had hardened Pharoah's heart, that He
might show His power and glory in the redemption of His chosen
people, for similar purposes had permitted the flagrant outrages
which had occurred throughout the continent. It was for them now
to determine whether they were worthy of divine
interference...Remember that the same God whose power divided the
Red Sea...was still the enemy of the oppressor and the friend of
the oppressed."
                                  -- Patrick Henry, 
                                     lawyer and statesman, 1775


"The American Revolution was preceded by the great religious
revival of the middle 18th Century, which had its effect both in
England and in the Colonies. When the common people turned to the
reading of the Bible, ...when they were stirred by a Great Revival,
...the way was prepared. It was because religion gave the people
a new importance and a new glory that they demanded a new freedom
and a new government. We cannot in our generation reject the cause
and retain the result. If the institutions they adopted are to
survive, if the governments which they founded are to endure, it
will be because the people continue to have similar religious
beliefs. It is idle to discuss freedom and equality on any other
basis. It is useless to expect substantial reforms from any other
motive."
                                   -- President Calvin Coolidge


"Our obligation to promote the public good extends as much to the
opposing of every exertion of arbitrary power that is injurious to
the state as it does to submitting to good and wholesome laws."
                                   -- Rev. Samuel West

"If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove,
how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to
which the wise and honest can repair."
                                   -- George Washington, 1787