America Quote by John Ashcroft

“Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.”

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Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.

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