Meet The Participants In The Great Debate

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."

-Patrick Henry

From time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?

-Ronald Reagan, 1981 Inaugural Address

"Where there is a spark of Patriotik fire, we will enkindle it."

-Samuel Adams

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

-George Washington

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

--Abraham Lincoln

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the day of trouble, He will hide me in His shelter, He will place me out of reach, high upon a rock.

-Exodus 14:13