The United States of America was founded on the principles of freedom. Some people think that freedom means being able to do whatever you want to do. That's not freedom, that's anarchy. True freedom refers to freedom of conscience, freedom of choice, freedom of religion, and freedom to live ones life as one sees fit. It is NOT freedom from conscience, nor is it freedom from choice, nor freedom from religion. It is freedom to act according to the dictates of one's own conscience, not according to the dictates of the government or anyone else. In America, we are free to choose what kind of job we have, where we live, and how we live. If we don't like our present situation we have the freedom to change it; and we don't have to get permission from anyone else to do so. We can practice, or not practice, our religion as we see fit, without restriction or coercion by the government. |
"The genius of the Constitution is not that it guarantees every man a chance to "succeed," as we are often told (has there ever been a government under which clever, determined, and unscrupulous men could not get to the top?), but that it gives the same inviolable rights and immunities to rich and poor alike, the only qualification for their enjoyment being their humanity. They are human rights pure and simple." ("Uses and Abuses of Patriotism," 194, (Hugh Nibley, Of All Things! Classic Quotations from Hugh Nibley, 2nd ed., rev. and expanded, compiled and edited by Gary P. Gillum [Salt Lake City and Provo: Deseret Book Co., Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1993], 275.))
"I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her comodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fertile fields and boundless prairies; and it was not there; in her rich mines and her vast commerce, and it was not there. Not until I visited the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." (Alexis de Tocqueville)
"The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state." (Ludwig von Mises)
"If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose- because it contains all the others- the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity- to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created." (Ayn Rand)
"No greater immediate responsibility rests upon members of the Church, upon all citizens of this Republic and of neighboring Republics than to protect the freedom vouchsafed by the Constitution of the United States." (David O. McKay)
"As important as are all other principles of the gospel, it was the freedom issue which determined whether you received a body. To have been on the wrong side of the freedom issue during the war in heaven meant eternal damnation. How then can Latter-day Saints expect to be on the wrong side in this life and escape the eternal consequences? The war in heaven is raging on earth today..." (Ezra Taft Benson, former Secretary of Agriculture. "Not Commanded in All Things", LDS Conference Report, April 1965)
"Where are we going? What is the matter with the world? How different are we from, and how rapidly are we approaching, the pattern of life which caused the downfall of Rome? This was forcibly brought to the attention of me and all who listened to Dr. Charles Habib Malik of Lebanon, professor of philosophy at the American University of Beirut. He was president of the United Nations General Assembly in 1958-59. In his message he said to all Americans:
'The world is turning its back on you because you are turning your back on yourself. Do not turn from the basics that have made America great - an abiding faith in God and in the dignity of man, created in the image of God.' (Cited by Wendell J. Ashton, "Weakness through Strength," back page, The Instructor, January 1965.) He appealed to America and the world not to let the power of material wealth and learning corrode because of a diminishing faith in God. Imagine this having to come from a man from Lebanon or from any other country!" (President Nathan Eldon Tanner, LDS Conference Report, April 1965.)
"Is it perhaps true that, as Dr. Charles Malik, the great Lebanese leader and former President of the United Nations General Assembly, has said,
'The deepest crisis of the West is the crisis of faith .... Western civilization is doomed until, jolted out of its complacency, self-satisfaction and sense of apartness, it rediscovers and reaffirms what is genuinely human and universal in its own soul'?
Let us examine our own lives and the life of our own beloved land." (Elder Ezra Taft Benson, LDS Conference Report, October 1960, Afternoon Meeting 103.) Note: Ezra Taft Benson was also Secretary of Agriculture under President Dwight D.Eisenhower.
"Charles Malik, the former president of the United Nations General Assembly a great diplomat and man, a time ago made this statement: 'We - all of us - need a mighty spiritual revival. The ideal of a settled, successful, selfish life is wholly inadequate. One craves to see great themes sought and discussed, great causes espoused. One burns for the reintroduction into life of the pursuit of greatness. Everywhere I go I find people sitting on the edge of their seats, waiting to be shown the way.
'There are infinite possibilities, both material and moral, to vindicate freedom against unfreedom, joy of living against tyranny, man against all that is subhuman and inhuman, truth against darkness and falsehood, and God against the devil and his works. The time is here not for pessimism and despair, but for a vast advance on many fronts.'" (Elder Marion Duff Hanks, LDS Conference Report, October 1961, First Day - Morning Meeting 11.)
An ode to America by Cornel Nistorescu (Romanian writer)
Why are Americans so united? They don't resemble one another even if you paint them! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations. Some of them are nearly extinct, others are incompatible with one another, and in matters of religious beliefs, not even God can count how many they are. Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, the secret services that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed on the streets nearby to gape about. The Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand. After the first moments of panic, they raised the flag on the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colours of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a minister or the president was passing. On every occasion they started singing their traditional song: "God Bless America!".
Silent as a rock, I watched the charity concert broadcast on Saturday once, twice, three times, on different tv channels. There were Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Robert de Niro, Julia Roberts, Cassius Clay, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Silvester Stalone, James Wood, and many others whom no film or producers could ever bring together. The American's solidarity spirit turned them into a choir. Actually, choir is not the word. What you could hear was the heavy artillery of the American soul. What neither George W. Bush, nor Bill Clinton, nor Colin Powell could say without facing the risk of stumbling over words and sounds, was being heard in a great and unmistakable way in this charity concert. I don't know how it happened that all this obsessive singing of America didn't sound croaky, nationalist, or ostentatious! It made you green with envy because you weren't able to sing for your country without running the risk of being considered chauvinist, ridiculous, or suspected of who-knows-what mean interests. I watched the live broadcast and the rerun of its rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who fought with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that would have killed other hundreds of thousands of people. How on earth were they able to bow before a fellow human? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put in a collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit which nothing can buy.
What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their galloping history? Their economic power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases which risk of sounding like commonplaces. I thought things over, but I reached only one conclusion.
Only freedom can work such miracles!
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To preserve our freedom and the greatness of America there are several things we must do. First, we should educate ourselves regarding our Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, our system of government and our history, as well as the full story regarding current events. Me must then participate in the political process. At the very least vote. But, additionally, support those candidates who are honest and true, and who will preserve our rights and freedoms. It is my belief that in our nation we need less taxes and government. more honesty and patriotism. You might even consider running for office yourself, the greatest journey begins with but a small step. One of the most heroic things that one can do for his or her country is to get up and go to work every day. If everyone does their part at producing and doing what they enjoy doing to make money, then our economy moves forward. Once we've made that money, if we balance saving and spending, control our debt and manage our money wisely, then the economy progresses even more and becomes even stronger; also, we must be sure to share our abundance with those less fortunate and donate generously to churches and charities that can be of assistance. As much as we may consider ourselves non-materialists, it is still true, in a sense, that money makes the world go 'round. It can buy food, clothing, shelter, education, time and hope. Finally, and most importantly; our freedom is a right, with that right comes a responsibility to govern ourselves. We must be responsible for our actions and make decisions consistent with that which will preserve our nation, our morality and our souls. You may reply that it is your life and that no one else has a right to tell you how to live it. On the contrary, your life belongs to the one who gave it to you: God, or, if you wish: nature. You have a responsibility to use that life in a manner that will be of most benefit to society. What separates humans from the animals is the ability to decide for ourselves. If we don't use that ability responsibly, then the government, in the interest of the "greater good", will take it away, making us no better than a monkey in a zoo. Fortunately, the decision is yours; that's the beauty of FREEDOM! |
I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation. (George Washington - from the closing paragraph of a letter to the governors of the 13 states on the occasion of his retirement)
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." (George Washington)
"Our Constitution was designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." (John Adams)
"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." (John Stuart Mill)
"Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." (William Penn)
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD: and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance." (Bible, Psalms 33:12)
"Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ, who hath been manifested by the things which we have written." (Book of Mormon, Ether 2:12)
"Our safety lies in repentance. Our strength comes of obedience to the commandments of God." (Gordon B. Hinckley, Prophet and President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, in the 171st Semiannual General Conference, October 7, 2001)
"The wisdom of the ages reveals that our moral compass cannot ultimately come from Lansing or from any other state capital, any more than it can come from the nation's capital, or Hollywood, or the United Nations, or some abstract liberal conception of the 'Village.' It comes from deep within us - it comes from our character, which is forged in our families and our faith and tempered in the arena of decision making and action." (John Engler, governor of Michigan, Imprimis, August 1996, Vol. 25, No. 8, p. 4.)
"Furthermore, if the United Nations diagnosis of 1945 is correct and war begins in the hearts and minds of men, how hopeful for the future can we be if more and more families are failing and if our educational systems are too often bereft of moral content? These two are mainstay institutions which profoundly shape the hearts and minds of men." (Neal A. Maxwell, Sermons Not Spoken [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1985], 35.)
Frankly, the U.N. scares me. A close reading of the United Nations Charter will tell you why: it doesn't guarantee the same rights as the United States Constitution. (Remember: Our human rights are not given us by the government or by words on parchment, but by God, we are born with them and they cannot be simply taken away, but we can allow them to be taken from us by our complacency.) Too many members of the United Nations regard the United States Constitution with disdain and some even with open and rabid contempt. If we allow the United Nations to take control over our rights, sovereignty and freedom, we will continue to have wars, we will continue to have class distinction and envy, and we will continue to be anything but united and anything but free. Since before the dawn of time, wars have been fought and people have died for freedom. Will we now just roll over and allow ours to be silently removed? I certainly hope not. |
"Not through communistic theories, not by the manifestations of mistrust, suspicion, and hatred will the turbulency of national ills be quieted. Unless the spirit of Christianity permeate the deliberations of the United Nations, dire tragedies await humanity." (President David O. Mckay, LDS Conference Report, October 1947, Morning Meeting 118.)
"Do you think that if such an interpretation of religion were widespread, even among the Christian nations of the earth we could have any such spectacle of discord and intrigue as the nations of the world have recently presented to disgusted and discouraged people all over the earth? Have you ever heard of a voice being raised in any of the sessions of the United Nations since its inception more than two years ago protesting the infractions of God's laws or importuning his help in achieving the purposes of that organization? I think you have not, unless perhaps in some innocuous way, because I suspect that it is tacitly agreed that God and religion shall be shut out of the proceedings. Well, my friends, it is a part of the message that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bears to the world that God and religion cannot be shut out from the consideration of world affairs without mortal hazard to the cause of goodness and peace." (Elder Stephen L. Richards, LDS Conference Report, October 1947, Morning Meeting 133.)
"After reading the Book of Mormon, ask yourselves, how long would this Korean conflict last if ten percent of the United Nations armed forces were living righteous lives? Then go another step in your imagination, say, if ten percent were Latter-day Saint men living the gospel, and about fifty percent of all the servicemen were living righteous lives, the power of God would touch the hearts of men and bring peace into the world. And I do not know how we can have real peace any other way." (Elder Eldred G. Smith, LDS Conference Report, October 1952, Afternoon Meeting 62.)
"I question if those who sit at the peace table have in their hearts the real spirit of peace. The spirit of peace is the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ. I regret when the United Nations was founded the name of the Redeemer of the World was not used, and for that reason I feel the genuine spirit of peace has not and does not influence the dealings of peace negotiations.
"Those who have been sitting around the so-called peace tables of the world, have been cunning and cagey men, negotiating for the sole purpose of acquiring more power, more territory, and in the final analysis of it all, millions of people now find themselves under the heel of the dictator; they have lost their free agency and liberty. They have lost their land." (Bishop Joseph L. Wirthlin, LDS Conference Report, October 1952, Morning Session 107.)
"I am pleased that this nation, on several occasions, has appealed to the United Nations to open the General Assemblies with an appeal to the Almighty. I am pleased that only recently our representative in that body referred to by President McKay some months ago, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., wrote a letter to the seventy-five members of the United Nations appealing to them to open those meetings with an appeal to the Almighty; that some representative of the churches represented there be invited in their own words to lead in prayer. Senator Lodge made the appeal to all and invited them to join him in this petition. Senator Lodge said:
'I do so in the conviction that we cannot make the United Nations into a successful instrument of God's peace without God's help - and that with His help we cannot fail. To this end I propose that we ask for that help.'
"There is probably no single thing that the United Nations can do which will so move and touch millions of people around the world and will give them such confidence in the United Nations." (Elder Ezra Taft Benson, LDS Conference Report, October 1956, Third Day, Morning Meeting 107.)
"Last Monday morning, October third, the Premier of Soviet Russia threatened that if the United Nations does not reorganize as he demands, the communist bloc will 'rely on their own strength to block us.' He also threatened to ignore the United Nation's peace-making machinery unless the Secretary General of the United Nations resign, and his position, that is, the Secretary's position, be replaced by a communist-styled, three-man presidium armed with veto powers.
"Who is this man who presumes to tell the United Nations what to do? He is a man who rejects the divinity of Jesus Christ and denies the existence of God, who is imbued with the false philosophy of Karl Marx, whose aim in life was 'to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.' He is a follower of Lenin, who said, 'I want children to hate their parents who are not communists.' The followers of these men, to gain their ends, 'resort to all sorts of stratagems, maneuvers, illegal methods, evasions, and subterfuges.' This atheistic attitude, and the advice to hate others, even one's own family, is just the opposite of the spirit of love as manifest and taught by the Savior. In sessions in another part of the United States are men who believe as I have indicated and who are willing to resort to any subterfuge, any scheme, that will further their ends to dethrone God. We appeal to God, who exists and lives, and with whom we are in harmony this morning - we have met in the name of his Beloved Son." (President David O. Mckay, LDS Conference Report, October 1960, First Day—Morning Meeting 5.)
"Recently, the United Nations Committee sensed the absence of something from that charter, and again the resolution was introduced that they offer prayer and appeal to God. I'm going to try to find out some day who gave that. I have never known.
"So they compromised, sensing the need of divine help, but not wishing to offend atheistic nations, to rise and bow their heads in silence so that each one may pray as he wishes. I think that is a long way down the line of cowardice from the time when Benjamin Franklin and the other framers of the Constitution of the United States felt the same need of divine guidance. They too started out without prayer, but they seemed not to make any progress until finally that old gentleman, the oldest, I believe, in the committee, arose and said, "The longer I live the more convincing proofs I see that God governs in the affairs of men, and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his aid, is it possible that an empire can rise without his aid?" and they asked a man each morning to offer prayer, and sincerely offered, with the result that we have the Constitution of the Unied States, giving to each individual liberty of conscience to worship God as he wished, the right to possess his own property, to speak his own mind, to publish what he would, do what he wishes so long as he does not trespass upon the rights of another, or deprive his neighbor of those same privileges." (David O. McKay, Steppingstones to an Abundant Life [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1971], 161.)
"We must expose to the light of public inquiry those forces which would destroy our country and our way of life. We should pay no attention to the recommendations of men who call the Constitution an eighteenth-century agrarian document-who apologize for capitalism and free enterprise. We should refuse to follow their siren song of increasingly concentrating the powers of government in the chief executive, of delegating American sovereign authority to non-American institutions of the United Nations and pretending that it will bring peace to the world by turning our armed forces over to a United Nations worldwide police force." (Title of Liberty, p. 16, and Ezra Taft Benson, The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1988], 681.)
"I have in my possession a copy of an unpublished manuscript on the United Nations Charter prepared in 1945 and given to me by that eminent international lawyer and former Under Secretary of State, J. Reuben Clark, Jr.
"President Clark's declaration on this, as on other subjects, emphasize more and more with the passing of time his vision and statesmanship. Commenting on the United Nations Charter and the 'travesty on exhaustive consideration' as the charter was hastily approved by the Congress under urging from the State Department, he continues with a devastating analysis and a sober warning to the American people that there will be a day of reckoning. I believe that day is near at hand. The hopes and the aspirations of the people have been betrayed. I hope this scholarly, unpublished memorandum by President Clark with its penetrating analysis will someday soon be available in full. Meantime, I urge all to read the solid volume Stand Fast by the Constitution, which embodies much of J. Reuben Clark's timely instruction." (Title of Liberty, pp. 78-79, and Ezra Taft Benson, The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1988], 698.)
"On the surface, the United Nations Charter and the structure of its various departments bears a strong resemblance to those of our own federal government. But the similarity goes no further than outward form. Whereas the United States is founded on the concept of limited government, the United Nations concept is one of unlimited government power with virtually no meaningful restraints to protect individual liberty.
"For instance, article 4, section 4 of our Constitution states: 'The United States shall guarantee to every State in this union a Republican form of government.' This means a government with limited powers. The framers knew that the Union would not last if the individual states were allowed to become despotic and unrestrained. To provide protection against the creation of a super-federal government, the ninth amendment further stipulates: 'The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.' And more of the same in the tenth amendment: 'The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.'
"Compare this with the ideological foundation upon which the United Nations is built. Instead of insuring that all member states have limited forms of government, the United Nations assumes that most of them have unlimited power over their subjects. The United Nations is not the least bit concerned over the fact that a majority of its members are governments which rule with police-state methods. Instead of assuming that any power not specifically mentioned in the Constitution is reserved to the individual citizens or their smaller governmental units, the United Nations operates under the doctrine that its charter is sufficiently vague and broad so as to authorize doing absolutely anything." (An Enemy Hath Done This, pp. 203-4, and Ezra Taft Benson, The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1988], 698.)
"Even if we assume that all of the people at the United Nations representing the various nations were of the highest moral caliber and prompted only by the most pure and selfless motives, there still is every reason to believe that the concentration into their hands of the absolute power of a nuclear monopoly, plus a military land, air, and naval force superior to any nation, would be a mighty tempting influence. In time, the flesh could weaken, even the best of men would be caught up in the inevitable struggle for world power, and finally, the whole planet would be subject to an unchallengeable dictatorship of the few over the many. True, such a development conceivably might not materialize for years, but it would materialize. The only legitimate question open to speculation is how soon." (An Enemy Hath Done This, p. 178, and Ezra Taft Benson, The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1988], 699.)
"In December, 1945, when the United Nations was being organized, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., United States Ambassador to the United Nations, in a letter to all delegations composing that body suggested that 'God should be openly and audibly invoked at the United Nations in accordance with any one of the religious faiths which are represented there.'
"That suggestion said, in effect: 'As we sit here as the chosen representatives of sixty nations with the avowed purpose of establishing and of maintaining peace in the world, let us acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being, and invoke his divine guidance as we seek the noblest accomplishment of all times - peace on earth, good will among men.'
"Just after that resolution was introduced in the United Nations, January 31, 1946, Russia formally announced its rejection of the United States' proposal, saying: 'Due regard is given to the lofty motives' which inspire Senator Lodge, but 'Russia considers that such a proposal is unnecessary,' ignoring the scriptural admonition:
'. . . Thou shalt remember the Lord the God; for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant. . . .'
'And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.' (Deut. 8:18-19.) (David O. McKay, Man May Know for Himself: Teachings of President David O. McKay, compiled by Clare Middlemiss [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1967], 392.)
"The world is full of confusion. We are trying to bring peace to the world through the United Nations, and unless you pray to God, how can you have peace, if you don't ask God for it?" (Matthew Cowley, Matthew Cowley Speaks [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1954], 409.)
"A few years ago, and this you will remember, representatives from the leading nations of the world met in San Francisco to draw up a Constitution that would unite the nations of the world. The United Nations Charter was about finished when one of the small nations, I think from South America, suggested that they insert the name of God and appeal to him for guidance.
"The suggestion was voted down. There was no room in the United Nations Charter for the Christ, for his name, or the name of his Father. (David O. McKay, Steppingstones to an Abundant Life [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1971], 159.)
"The United Nations was founded following World War II to protect future generations from the scourge of war . . . to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order . . . where freedom from violence prevailed. Whatever challenges the world was bound to face, the founders intended this body to stand for certain values, even if they could not be enforced, and to condemn violence, even if it could not be stopped.
"This body [United Nations] was to speak with the voice of moral authority. That was to be its greatest power.
"But the awful truth is that the use of violence for political gain has become more, not less, widespread in the last decade. Events of recent weeks have presented new, unwelcome evidence of brutal disregard for life and truth . . . on how divided and dangerous our world is, . . . how quick the recourse to violence. . . ." (Ronald Reagan 'Renewing the United States Commitment to Peace,' given before the United Nations.)
"We are in the midst of continuing international crises. The outlook for world peace and security is dark indeed. The gravity of the world situation, it appears, is increasing almost daily. The United Nations seems unable to settle the troubles of the world. In truth, we are faced with the hard fact that the United Nations, it seems, has largely failed in its purpose. Yes, the days ahead are sobering and challenging ones." (Ezra Taft Benson, So Shall Ye Reap, compiled by Reed A. Benson [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1960], 250.)
Recommended: The Heritage Foundation
More information regarding the United Nations (www.un.org) can be found at the web site of the John Birch Society at www.jbs.org
| I suggest that you consider the above in the context of our present situation on the stage of human events. Are we headed in the right direction; personally, nationally, globally? If not, then we need to make some changes. Now! |