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Alan Keyes

59 quotes

“It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Delaware State Republican Dinner (8 April 1995)
“In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn't say that all men are created equal 'if you so choose.' It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Delaware State Republican Dinner (8 April 1995)
“The first principle of a Keyes administration, it will apply in foreign policy, it will apply in domestic policy, it will apply everywhere. There is a God, and we are not him! I will not join the Clinton Democrats who worship government as their god! I will not join the Dole Republicans who worship power as their god! I will not join the Forbes Republicans who worship money as their god! I will stand where the founders of this nation stood, and I will give my respect and allegiance to the creator God who is the ground of justice and who is the ground of all our human rights!”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the Louisiana Republican Convention (27 January 1996)
“Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed which says that those rights are the consequences of our mother's will.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Southern Methodist University (24 February 1997)
“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.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Iowa straw poll speech (14 August 1999)
“You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: PBS' Newshour with Jim Lehrer (20 December 1999)
“How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Virginia high school appearance (28 February 2000)
“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.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Keyes appearing on Fox News in (March 2000)
“Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do--for family and for community and for humanity as a whole.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco (4 March 2000)
“Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Renew America rally in Orem, Utah (8 March 2000)
“The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Renew America rally in Orem, Utah (8 March 2000)
“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.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Wisconsin (26 March 2000)
“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.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Renew America rally in Alabama (29 April 2000)
“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.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alabama Republican Assemblies Luncheon (29 April 2000)
“There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lynn University Commencement Speech (6 May 2000)
“Why do they want to disarm the people? Well, they want to disarm the people on the assumption that we are not responsible enough to be trusted with the means to defend ourselves--regardless of the truth that our Founders thought that this is an essential prerequisite and precondition of liberty.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rally in Idaho Falls, Idaho (12 May 2000)
“From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny, all the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms to get on the battlefields — ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rally in Idaho Falls, Idaho (12 May 2000)
“At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character--an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rally in Idaho Falls, Idaho (12 May 2000)
“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.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah (22 September 2000)
“There are times we don't want to hear about the need to temper our best hopes in order to achieve our most vital security. But we still need to do it. Before we can triumph, we must survive. Before liberty can prevail, the possibility of liberty must be preserved.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah (22 September 2000)
“Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah (22 September 2000)
“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.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Israel's Independence Day Festival (21 April 2002)
“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.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Israel's Independence Day Festival (21 April 2002)
“A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at Thanksgiving Point, Lehi, Utah (24 September 2002)
“God's irony: that in order to fight and defeat the threat of terrorism, we shall have to be clear about the principle of justice that allows us to understand what is evil in terrorism. And that principle of justice is the claim of justice that is inherent in every innocent human life. But if that claim was there in the Twin Towers, if it was there on the airplanes that those terrorists attacked, you explain to me why it is not there in the womb!”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at Thanksgiving Point, Lehi, Utah (24 September 2002)
“Hillary Clinton did what she did for the sake of her agenda of personal ambition, carefully planned and worked out over months in which she was using and abusing the state of New York — because she looked at several other states--as a platform for her personal ambition. I, on the other hand, have responded to the call of the people of Illinois who have asked me to come and help them with a crisis situation. It doesn't violate my principal understanding of federalism, because federalism has two parts: state sovereignty and national unity.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On CNN's American Morning (11 August 2004)
“The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Christian Coalition Dinner, February 6, 1999
“[[Barack Obama|[Barack] Obama]] is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with KHAS-TV, Hastings, Nebraska (19 February 2009)
“Is he President of the United States? According to the constitution in order to be eligible for president, you have to be a natural born citizen. He has refused to provide proof that he is, in fact, a natural born citizen and his Kenyan relations say that he was born in Nairobi, at a time when his mother was too young to transmit US citizenship.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with KHAS-TV, Hastings, Nebraska (19 February 2009)
“So I'm not even sure that he's President of the United States... neither are many of our military people now, who are going to court to ask the question "Do we have to obey a man who is not qualified under the constitution.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with KHAS-TV, Hastings, Nebraska (19 February 2009)
“We're in the midst of the greatest crisis we've ever seen and if we don't stop laughing about it and deal with it, we're going to find ourself in the midst of chaos, confusion and civil war. It's time we started acting like grownups.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with KHAS-TV, Hastings, Nebraska (19 February 2009)
“The person you call 'President Obama" and I frankly refuse to call him that ... at the moment, he is somebody who is kind of an 'alleged usurper' who is alleged to be someone who is occupying that office without constitutional warrant to do so.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with KHAS-TV, Hastings, Nebraska (19 February 2009); as transcribed verbatim... from Keith Olberman's Countdown, MSNBC (February 2009)
“The idea of a terrorist attack that assaults innocent human beings in a building or a mall or a restaurant is bad enough. Yet the terrorist mind that looks at a passenger plane and sees the fuel and the intensity of the blast, and sees the rocket engines that will carry it into the heart of destruction like a cruise missile, but who does not see the humanity of one single soul on that airplane, is the chilling truth of what we're up against.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the Black America's Political Action Committee (BAMPAC) (25 September 2001)
“We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes — and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reception in Winder, Georgia (11 September 2003)
“Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And if we accept the notion that their dictates are law, then we have not only submitted to tyranny, we have abandoned a republican form of government.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reception in Winder, Georgia (11 September 2003)
“There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship. And I think it's time we remembered that our Constitution was not put together in order to establish the sovereignty of the judges, it was framed in order to guarantee the sovereignty of the people.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: CPAC 2004 (24 January 2004)
“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.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Hillsdale, Michigan (7 February 2004)
“I think the most important thing that G. W. Bush has done is what he's done that's good for America: he has stood against this country's enemies. I don't remember on September the 12th that we counted the bodies in terms of who was black and who was white. Thank God that day we remembered that we were all of us Americans — and G. W. Bush has been a president standing against that evil for the sake of all Americans.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hannity & Colmes, Fox News (12 July 2004) [http://renewamerica.us/archives/media/interviews/04_07_12hc.htm -->
“Now, you think it's a coincidence that on September 11, 2001, we were struck by terrorists an evil that has at its heart the disregard of innocent human life? We who have for several decades killed not thousands but scores of millions of our own children, in disregard of the principle of innocent human life — I don't think that's a coincidence, I think that's a warning. I don't think that's a coincidence, I think that's a shot across the bow. I think that's a way of Providence telling us, "I love you all; I'd like to give you a chance. Wake up! Would you please wake up?”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reaping the Fruits of the Moral Crisis (7 May 2004)
“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!”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rally in defense of marriage, Boston, Massachusetts (14 May 2004)
“Sex itself only exists in relation to procreation. That's one of the reasons why I sometimes object — and it's just a theoretical objection, but it's worth thinking about — to the whole notion that one calls what people of the same sex do "sexual relations." As a matter of fact, they have precisely turned their back on sexual relations, in order to engage in acts of mutual pleasure that have nothing whatsoever to do with sexuality.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: National Federation of Republican Assemblies, NYC (31 August 2004)
“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.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Party for the President (2 September 2004)
“Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description — an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Party for the President (2 September 2004)
“The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens — they won't have access to weapons. Now, we know that criminals, by definition, are people who don't obey laws. Therefore, you can pass all the laws that you want, they will still have access to these weapons, just as they have access to illegal drugs and other things right now. That means you end up with a situation in which the law-abiding folks can't defend themselves, and the crooks have all the guns.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: U.S. Senate debate in Illinois (21 October 2004)
“The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: U.S. Senate debate in Illinois (21 October 2004)
“The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: U.S. Senate debate in Illinois (21 October 2004)
“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.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the candidacy of Donald Trump, as quoted in "Donald Trump Illustrates 'Glamour of Evil,' Alan Keyes Says in Defense of Russell Moore", in The Christian Post (13 May 2016)
“Sen. Bob Smith has succeeded in amending an upcoming appropriations bill to beat back the latest wave of Clinton administration disrespect for two key elements of a free citizenry -- privacy and the right to keep and bear arms. Senator Smith is to be praised for keeping his eye on some balls that might have been lost in the smoke of scandal and misinformation that the Clinton Administration seems endlessly to emit. Actually, few things could make the need for vigorous defense of 2nd Amendment rights clearer than the ongoing spectacle of Clinton['s] contempt for the citizens he is supposed to serve. For the 2nd Amendment is really in the Constitution to give men like Bill Clinton something to think about when their ambition gets particularly over-inflated. The Founders added the 2nd Amendment so that when, after a long train of abuses, a government evinces a methodical design upon our natural rights, we will have the means to protect and recover our rights. That is why the right to keep and bear arms was included in the Bill of Rights.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The reason for the Second Amendment", WorldNetDaily (14 August 1998)
“On all the matters that touch upon the critical moral issues, Arnold Schwarzenegger is on the evil side. This is a fact. A mere list of the positions he supports is enough to make this plain: abortion as a "right," cloning of human beings, governmental classification of citizens by race, public benefits for sexual partners outside of marriage, disrespect for property rights against environmental extremism, repudiation of the right to bear arms — no more need be said to show that this candidate is wrong where human decency, human rights and human responsibility bear directly on political issues. Last week, we saw Schwarzenegger does not deny habitual crude offenses against young women. Rather, he theatrically, vaguely and impersonally apologizes for them, before a roaring crowd of adoring fans, admitting neither any connection between action and character, nor any need for genuine penance or reformation. The Republicans who vote for Schwarzenegger will owe Bill Clinton an apology for having given the nation the impression that they sincerely believed character to be an issue for those claiming high office.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Arnold's corruption of Republican Party", WorldNetDaily (6 October 2003)
“Hillary Clinton pursued an agenda of clear personal ambition. She fished around among the different states in the union, decided which state would be the best object of her personal ambitions, fomented interest in that state for the sake of her personal agenda. She was a sitting First Lady at the time, so there was even some overtones of intimidation involved in all of that, and she simply used and abused the state as a platform of her personal ambition. Quite the contrary, I had no thought whatsoever of running for the U.S. Senate in the State of Illinois. I have been called in by a decision of the people in Illinois who say that they need my help. That's their choice, and that respects the sovereignty of the people because they have made the determination that they need outside help.”
Alan Keyes (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On MSNBC's Scarborough Country (17 August 2004)