For Me This Is The Vital Litmus

Conservation Of Energy. Never Stand Up When You Can Sit Down, And Never Sit Down When You Can Lie Down.

The Urge To Distribute Wealth Equally, And Still More The Belief That It Can Be Brought About By Political Action, Is The Most Dangerous Of All Popular Emotions. It Is The Legitimation Of Envy, Of All The Deadly Sins The One Which A Stable Society Based On Consensus Should Fear The Most. The Monster State Is A Source Of Many Evils; But It Is, Above All, An Engine Of Envy.

In The Past, The U.s. Has Shown Its Capacity To Reinvent Its Gifts For Leadership. During The 1970s, In The Aftermath Of The Nixon Abdication And The Ford And Carter Presidencies, The Whole Nation Peered Into The Abyss, Was Horrified By What It Saw And Elected Ronald Reagan As President, Which Began A National Resurgence.

In The Last Generation, With Public Christianity In Headlong Retreat, We Have Caught Our First, Distant View Of A De-christianized World , And It Is Not Encouraging.

This Book Is Dedicated To The People Of America--strong, Outspoken, Intense In Their Convictions, Sometimes Wrong-headed But Always Generous And Brave, With A Passion For Justice No Nation Has Ever Matched.