Kristina's Soapbox: 09/03/2009

Best Quote of the Day

"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives." -- John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756
"Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has the right to concentrate your affections. The name AMERICANS, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism." --George Washington, "Farewell Address," 1796
"The first value whose existence is dependent upon positing God's existence is morality. If there is no God, there are no rights and wrongs that transcend personal preference......Without God, all we can have are opinions about morality, but our opinions about "good" and "evil" behavior are no more valid or binding than our opinions about "good" and "bad" ice cream. Dennis Prager & Joseph Telushkin

Thursday, September 3, 2009