Alan Keyes Quotes
born 1950 United States
- United States
- Conservatives
- Political authors
- Politicians
Also known as: Keyes, Alan
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A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.
It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.
There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.
The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.
The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.
How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?
There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.
Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.
The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.
The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.
We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes — and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description — an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.
Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
The GOP is poised to nominate a candidate whose life could be used to illustrate the deceitfully seductive quality of sin summarized in the phrase "the glamour of evil."
I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.
Harden our hearts to the innocents in the womb, and we have hardened our hearts to the need for compassion, and mercy, and fellow-feeling, and charity, and decency in this world.
The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise--the carrying into practice of religious principles, and beliefs, and convictions.
I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent the people there. So I certainly wouldn't imitate it.