Its a great day to be alive. Here at the Heritage Foundation i am so pleased to be able to introduce our speaker. From School Shootings and declining sunday attendance. Hyper partisanship and politics. And its tempting to turn off the tv to adopt the benedict option. That isnt what we are about here. That isnt the american way. He never surrendered without and despair even in a time of war or economic or cultural crisis americans have always risen to any challenge in our lives, liberty and happiness. Always there have arise had aria time of crisis men and women who call for the best in us into such a president ial individual is our guest today. Its not only my opinion, and ive known him for quite a few years, but that of National Leaders like the founder of the Alliance Defending freedom to former attorney general in there about American Restoration of faith, family and personal sacrifice can heal our nation. Jim and his coauthor explain how you and i can restore the first principle of
My question is why you are surprised that america is now failing with moral issues and and government and privacy all over the world has been promoting selfishness, self interest, sex , corruption and a lot of other materialistic requirements and subsequently they have affected this country whether one way or another, it has come to this country and has been the result of the same policies, why are you surprised . First, im not entirely surprised. I think most people of goodwill on both sides of the proverbial aisle are not surprised but i think the best way to answer you is in this way, because itsprings from our book. Our Founding Fathers and mothers, and we know this from diaries, letters, observations, were very interested in that proverbial moment in western civilization where it ceased to be the Roman Republic where things were relatively free and became the roman empire. That people ceased being citizens and they became subjects, right . Not under the direction of the relative f
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, a Beautiful Day in washington dc. I always say that but it is. The sun has come out, the rain has stopped and here we are, great day to be alive at the Heritage Foundation. My name is lee edwards, at the Heritage Foundation, i am so pleased to be able to introduce our speaker. It is all too easy these days to focus on the negative in our nation. From School Shootings and the declining sunday attendance in our churches to racist rhetoric, hyper partisanship in our politics. It is tempting to turn off the tv, close down all the apps and adopt the benedict option. That is not what we are about here. That is not the american way. We never surrendered to doubt and despair even in time of war or economic or cultural crisis. Since our founding 234 years ago americans have always risen to any challenge in our lives, liberty and our happiness. Always there have reason in time of crisis men and women who called forth the best of us, the better angels of our