"If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security."

Ezra Taft Benson, Source: his book, An Enemy Hath Done This, 2002

"America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions. The legions which she sends forth are armed, not with the sword, but with the Cross. The higher state to which she seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God."

Calvin Coolidge

"The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their 
children."

King Edward VIII
"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world."
Benjamin Harrison, from a 1888 address to Congress

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."

Patrick Henry 

"America is still a government of the naive, by the naive, and for the naive. He who does 
not know, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of this country."

Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
"History affirms this. The reason America did not follow the usual path of revolution to dictatorship was solely the result of the character of one man, George Washington. Washington could have easily made himself dictator, and many of the officers in his army wanted him to do just that. But Washington's character would not allow it.  When the elite who run a country have good morals and high standards, then you have a good country. If the elite become corrupt, you have a corrupt country. The vulgarity, profanity and violence you see in entertainment are there only because those individuals occupying the positions of power in the entertainment industry said 'Yes.' If they said 'No,' those things would disappear from the screens and the magazine racks."

Charley Reese

"This country was founded by religious nuts with guns."

P.J. O'Rourke

"The systemic change America needs first is not in its politics or laws, but in the faith of its people. The part of our system that still works as intended is the ability of the people to change its leadership and laws. The mechanism of republican government is still intact. The problem is in us. We are a statist people, comfortable with statist solutions. This must change. We cannot judge righteously if we are ourselves unrighteous. Before we ask, presumptuously, "God Bless America," we need to pray "Revive Us Again.""

Mark R. Rushdoony
"...(W)e no longer fully have what our ancestors, who framed and ratified our Constitution, thought of as freedom - a careful division of power that prevents power from becoming concentrated and unlimited. The word they usually used for concentrated power was consolidated - a rough synonym for fascist. And the words they used for any excessive powers claimed or exercised by the state were usurped and tyrannical. They would consider the modern "liberal" state tyrannical in principle; they would see in it not the opposite of the fascist, communist, and socialist states, but their sister.

If Washington and Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton could come back, the first thing they'd notice would be that the federal government now routinely assumes thousands of powers never assigned to it - powers never granted, never delegated, never enumerated. These were the words they used, and it's a good idea for us to learn their language. They would say that we no longer live under the Constitution they wrote.

I call the present system "Post-Constitutional America." As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government."

Joe Sobran, from 'How Tyranny Came to America'

"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair."

Arnold Toynbee

"Of the twenty-two civilisations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now."

Arnold Toynbee

"America is the only country that has gone from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."

Oscar Wilde

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