Alan Keyes Quotes

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.

Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God's plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

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.

How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?

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.

Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

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.

The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.

Christ would not vote for Barack Obama because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.

The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.

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.

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.

Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.

Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes - and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.

I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.

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.

Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.

It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.

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.

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.

In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.

That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.

I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

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 surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom; we have surrendered its only real meaning, and we will not be free again until we get it back.

Politics must be founded on the solid faith of God almighty

It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.

Rights come from God and only from God.

Where do find the most persecuted Christians in the world?... in the classrooms of our government schools, where the assault is not upon the body, but the soul.

Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our.

If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship in our republic.