Alan Keyes Quotes

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• I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote…
• That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors…
• And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is turning the clock…
• I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.
• Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.
• Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And if we accept…
• We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
• Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of…
• Harden our hearts to the innocents in the womb, and we have hardened our hearts to the need for compassion, and mercy, and fellow-feeling, and…
• There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.
• The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.
• We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may have…
• The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.
• Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing…
• How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?
• 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…
• The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.
• Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed…
• It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.
• Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure…

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