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
Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.
In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.
If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.
Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
If we would let God into our schools under normal circumstances, then we probably wouldn't have to see our children turn to God when faced with this kind of evil,
He refused to take into account the sensitivity of the black people of South Carolina on that flag.
I wish I could applaud all of you in the media for such fairness, ... But I certainly can't.
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.
The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all created equal and endowed by the Creator, God, with our unalienable rights.
Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is turning the clock back hundreds of years. Back to a time before this nation declared that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator; not by their ancestry, not by their skin color, not by their gender, not by Congress, not by the Constitution, and not by the laws
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 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.