Alan Keyes
Alan Keyes
Alan Lee Keyesis an American conservative political activist, author, former diplomat, and perennial candidate for public office. A doctoral graduate of Harvard University, Keyes began his diplomatic career in the U.S. Foreign Service in 1979 at the United States consulate in Bombay, India, and later in the American embassy in Zimbabwe...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth7 August 1950
CityLong Island, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.
It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.
We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.
Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.
The right response when, in the army, you are given an unlawful order, is to refuse that order. The right response of a chief executive in this state and in this nation, when faced with an order by a court that he conscientiously believes violates the constitution he is sworn to respect, is to refuse their order!
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.
Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.
Is this kind of pointless squabbling really what we want to see? We're talking about electing the president of the United States.
I know who I'm voting for, and I'm not disclosing that.
He refused to take into account the sensitivity of the black people of South Carolina on that flag.
It isn't a free speech issue; it's a matter of public decency.
Our first responsibility is not to ourselves, ... Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.
Some people want to pretend we don't have an adversarial political system, but we do, ... We should not only tolerate it, we should encourage that kind of debate.
I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.