Mercury Newsletter

John Adams

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

Bill Bradley

Keeping those promises won't be done by either opposition to government or rhetorical flourishes followed by tiny demonstration projects. We need an honest conversation with the American people, even if it endangers our poll standing for awhile.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them. And every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American.

The ideology of free trade is the alien import, an invention of European academics and scribblers, not one of whom ever built a great nation, and all of whom were repudiated by America's greatest statesmen, including all four presidents on Mount Rushmore.

As you may have heard in my last campaign, I am called by many names. "Protectionist" is one of the nicer ones; but it is inexact. I am an economic nationalist. To me, the country comes before the economy; and the economy exists for the people. I believe in free markets, but I do not worship them. In the proper hierarchy of things, it is the market that must be harnessed to work for man - and not the other way around.

The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power. It is a solemn moment for the American Democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

And we are going to fight every day to tell those who want to degrade those who have a faith in God and don't understand that those values lead to a bigger heart and greater consciences.

What is going on right now is a wholesale effort to discourage people of real conscience from participating in the political process. The effort is being undertaken because, since they cannot defeat our numbers, they must defeat our minds by so discouraging us that we do not show up on the critical days of choice.

But if human beings can decide who is human and who is not, the doctrine of God-given rights is utterly corrupted. Abortion is the unjust taking of a human life and a breach of the fundamental principles of our public moral creed.

In the 1960's, the civil rights movement sought the assistance of government to enforce the fundamental principle that all men are created equal. But today's civil rights groups have abandoned that principle in favor of preferential treatment for groups defined by race or sex. This is simply wrong. We cannot cure injustice with another injustice.

It is wrong to treat sexual orientation like race. Race is a condition beyond the individual's control. Sexual orientation involves behavior. If we equate sexual orientation and race, we are saying that sexual behavior is beyond the individual's control and moral will. The effort to equate homosexual and lesbian relations with legal marriage represents a destructive assault on the heterosexual, marriage-based family.

Character matters. One's private character is one's public character. To suggest that the two can be severed is but another deception by those with a vested interest in perpetuating this big lie. As Emerson aptly noted, "A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrine stanza -- read it forward, backward or across, it still spells the same thing."

The Philosophy of the classroom in this generation will be the philosophy of politics, government and life in the next.

Until the mainstream acknowledges their diminishing return is a direct function of lousy news judgment and an abandonment of objectivity, Talk radio, WorldNetDaily, and other online services offering what is ignored by the networks -- will continue to grow

If we fail to prosecute felons with guns, it doesn't matter if you have five new gun laws or five million. The people most likely to commit a violent crime, the people most likely to give guns to children, the people most likely to provide the means for tragedies like what we witnessed in Littleton, are convicted felons with guns. Our children will never be safe from gun violence until we enforce the laws on the books. But whatever we do, we should not abridge the constitutional rights of law abiding citizens in order to protect law abiding citizens from those who break the law. That would be nuts.

Restoring core American values is the greatest challenge confronting us as we conclude one century and begin another. These values – courage, faith, life, responsibility, and integrity – are the source of our nation's greatness and the only real hope for ensuring a bright future for our children.

If we as a society don't condemn what is wrong, how can we teach our children what is right?

The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man.

My real disappointment at a personal level in our leader is where he took a poll on whether to tell the truth.

Though the object of being a great power is to be able to fight a great war, the only way of remaining a great power is not to fight one, or to fight it on a limited scale. This was the secret of Great Britain's greatness so long as she stuck to naval warfare and did not try to become a military power on the continental pattern.

We have torn up 150 years of traditional American foreign policy. We have tossed Washington’s Farewell Address into the discard. We have thrown ourselves squarely into the power politics and the power wars of Europe, Asia and Africa. We have taken the first step upon a course from which we can never hereafter retreat.

It is not my job to make people feel comfortable. That’s old, promises politics.... I’m going to ask questions...demand answers.

The day after the election we all looked at each other and said,...‘what ...do we do now?’

For over one hundred years Americans have been running a gigantic experiment in government schools, trying to find out what a society looks like without God. Now we know

If President Clinton's pattern of lies, perjuries and obstructions proves sufficient to undermine his credibility as the nation's chief executive and thus threaten American security, he should not just be censured - a meaningless formula aimed only at absolving Congress of an unpleasant duty - he should be removed (if he lacks the grace to resign first). If not, final judgment should be left to the ballot box, where purely political judgments belong.

The Reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

Clinton should resign.... He should resign because he has resolutely failed - and continues to fail - the most fundamental test of any president: to put his nation's interests first.