George C. Wallace:
The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud Sham and Hoax, July 4, 1964
We come here today in deference to the memory of those stalwart
patriots who on July 4, 1776, pledged their lives, their fortunes,
and their sacred honor to establish and defend the proposition
that governments are created by the people, empowered by the people,
derive their just powers from the consent of the people, and must
forever remain subservient to the will of the people.
Today, 188 years later, we celebrate that occasion and find inspiration
and determination and courage to preserve and protect the great
principles of freedom enunciated in the Declaration of Independence.
It is therefore a cruel irony that the President of the United
States has only yesterday signed into law the most monstrous piece
of legislation ever enacted by the United States Congress.
It is a fraud, a sham, and a hoax.
This bill will live in infamy. To sign it into law at any time
is tragic. To do so upon the eve of the celebration of our independence
insults the intelligence of the American people.
It dishonors the memory of countless thousands of our dead who
offered up their very lives in defense of principles which this
bill destroys.
Never before in the history of this nation have so many human
and property rights been destroyed by a single enactment of the
Congress. It is an act of tyranny. It is the assassin's knife
stuck in the back of liberty.
With this assassin's knife and a blackjack in the hand of the
Federal force-cult, the left-wing liberals will try to force us
back into bondage. Bondage to a tyranny more brutal than that
imposed by the British monarchy which claimed power to rule over
the lives of our forefathers under sanction of the Divine Right
of kings.
Today, this tyranny is imposed by the central government which
claims the right to rule over our lives under sanction of the
omnipotent black-robed despots who sit on the bench of the United
States Supreme Court.
This bill is fraudulent in intent, in design, and in execution.
It is misnamed. Each and every provision is mistitled. It was
rammed through the congress on the wave of ballyhoo, promotions,
and publicity stunts reminiscent of P. T. Barnum.
It was enacted in an atmosphere of pressure, intimidation, and
even cowardice, as demonstrated by the refusal of the United States
Senate to adopt an amendment to submit the bill to a vote of the
people.
To illustrate the fraud--it is not a Civil Rights Bill. It is
a Federal Penal Code. It creates Federal crimes which would take
volumes to list and years to tabulate because it affects the lives
of 192 million American citizens. Every person in every walk and
station of life and every aspect of our daily lives becomes subject
to the criminal provisions of this bill.
It threatens our freedom of speech, of assembly, or association,
and makes the exercise of these Freedoms a federal crime under
certain conditions.
It affects our political rights, our right to trial by jury, our
right to the full use and enjoyment of our private property, the
freedom from search and seizure of our private property and possessions,
the freedom from harassment by Federal police and, in short, all
the rights of individuals inherent in a society of free men.
Ministers, lawyers, teachers, newspapers, and every private citizen
must guard his speech and watch his actions to avoid the deliberately
imposed booby traps put into this bill. It is designed to make
Federal crimes of our customs, beliefs, and traditions. Therefore,
under the fantastic powers of the Federal judiciary to punish
for contempt of court and under their fantastic powers to regulate
our most intimate aspects of our lives by injunction, every American
citizen is in jeopardy and must stand guard against these despots.
Yet there are those who call this a good bill.
It is people like Senator Hubert Humphrey and other members of
Americans for Democratic Action. It is people like Ralph McGill
and other left-wing radical apologists.
They called it a good bill before it was amended to restore the
right to trial by jury in certain cases.
Yet a Federal judge may still try one without a jury under the
provisions of this bill. It was the same persons who said it was
a good bill before the amendment pretending to forbid busing of
pupils from neighborhood schools. Yet a Federal judge may still
order busing from one neighborhood school to another. They have
done it, they will continue to do it. As a matter of fact, it
is but another evidence of the deceitful intent of the sponsors
of this bill for them to claim that it accomplished any such thing.
It was left-wing radicals who led the fight in the Senate for
the so-called civil rights bill now about to enslave our nation.
We find Senator Hubert Humphrey telling the people of the United
States that "non-violent" demonstrations would continue
to serve a good purpose through a "long, busy and constructive
summer."
Yet this same Senator told the people of this country that passage
of this monstrous bill would ease tensions and stop demonstrations.
This is the same Senator who has suggested, now that the Civil
Rights Bill is passed, that the President call the fifty state
Governors together to work out ways and means to enforce this
rotten measure.
There is no need for him to call on me. I am not about to be a
party to anything having to do with the law that is going to destroy
individual freedom and liberty in this country.
I am having nothing to do with enforcing a law that will destroy
our free enterprise system.
I am having nothing to do with enforcing a law that will destroy
neighborhood schools.
I am having nothing to do with enforcing a law that will destroy
the rights of private property.
I am having nothing to do with enforcing a law that destroys your
right--and my right--to choose my neighbors--or to sell my house
to whomever I choose.
I am having nothing to do with enforcing a law that destroys the
labor seniority system.
I am having nothing to do with this so-called civil rights bill.
The liberal left-wingers have passed it. Now let them employ some
pinknik social engineers in Washington, D.C., To figure out what
to do with it.
The situation reminds me of the little boy looking at the blacksmith
as he hammered a red-hot horseshoe into the proper shape.
After minutes of hammering, the blacksmith took the horseshoe,
splashed it into a tub of water and threw it steaming onto a sawdust
pile.
The little fellow picked up the horseshoe, dropped it quickly.
"What's the matter, son," the blacksmith said, "is
that shoe too hot to handle?"
"No sir," the little boy said, "it just don't take
me long to look at a horseshoe."
It's not going to take the people of this country long to look
at the Civil Rights Bill, either.
And they are going to discard it just as quickly as the little
boy tossed away the still hot horseshoe.
But I am not here to talk about the separate provisions of the
Federal Penal Code. I am here to talk about principles which have
been overthrown by the enactment of this bill. The principles
that you and I hold dear. The principles for which our forefathers
fought and died to establish and to defend. The principles for
which we came here to rededicate ourselves.
But before I get into that, let me point out one important fact.
It would have been impossible for the American people to have
been deceived by the sponsors of this bill had there been a responsible
American press to tell the people exactly what the bill contained.
If they had had the integrity and the guts to tell the truth,
this bill would never have been enacted.
Whoever heard of truth put to the worst in free and open encounter?
We couldn't get the truth to the American people.
You and I know that that's extremely difficult to do where our
newspapers are owned by out-of-state interests. Newspapers which
are run and operated by left-wing liberals, Communist sympathizers,
and members of the Americans for Democratic Action and other Communist
front organizations with high sounding names.
However, we will not be intimidated by the vultures of the liberal
left-wing press. We will not be deceived by their lies and distortions
of truth. We will not be swayed by their brutal attacks upon the
character and reputation of any honest citizen who dares stand
up and fight for liberty.
And, we are not going to be influenced by intellectually bankrupt
editors of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, one of whom has
presided over the dissolution of the once great Atlanta Constitution.
We can understand his bitterness in his bleak failure, but we
need not tolerate his vituperative and venomous attacks upon the
integrity and character of our people. These editors, like many
other left-wingers in the liberal press, are not influenced by
tradition. Theirs is a tradition of scalawags. Their mealy-mouthed
platitudes disgrace the honored memory of their predecessors--such
men of character as Henry Grady, Joel Chandler Harris, and Clarke
Howell, men who made the name of the Atlanta Constitution familiar
in every household throughout the South. They are not worthy to
shine the shoes of those great men.
In this connection I want to pay my highest respects and compliments
to the dedicated men of Atlanta and of Georgia who gave to the
people of their state what is destined to become the true voice
of the south. I have reference to the great newspaper the Atlanta
Times.
It is a sad commentary on the period in which we live that it
is necessary for the people of a great city to start their own
newspaper in order to get the truth.
I hope you have some success in this venture and I assure you
that there will be many subscribers in the State of Alabama including
myself.
As I have said before, that Federal Penal Code could never have
been enacted into law if we had had a responsible press who was
willing to tell the American people the truth about what it actually
provides. Nor would we have had a bill had it not been for the
United States Supreme Court.
Now on the subject of the court let me make it clear that I am
not attacking any member of the United States Supreme Court as
an individual. However, I do attack their decisions, I question
their intelligence, their common sense and their judgment, I consider
the Federal Judiciary system to be the greatest single threat
to individual freedom and liberty in the United States today,
and I'm going to take off the gloves in talking about these people.
There is only one word to describe the Federal judiciary today.
That word is "lousy."
They assert more power than claimed by King George III, more power
than Hitler, Mussolini, or Khrushchev ever had. They assert the
power to declare unconstitutional our very thoughts. To create
for us a system of moral and ethical values. To outlaw and declare
unconstitutional, illegal, and immoral the customs, traditions,
and beliefs of the people, and furthermore they assert the authority
to enforce their decrees in all these subjects upon the American
people without their consent.
This is a matter that has been of great concern to many legal
authorities. The Council of State Governments composed of representatives
of the fifty States sponsored the proposal just last year seeking
to curb the powers of this body of judicial tyrants. The Conference
of Chief Justices of all of the state Supreme Courts of this nation
has also issued an historic statement urging judicial restraint
upon the Court.
This latter group said, "the value of a firm statement by
us lies in the fact that we speak as members of all the state
appellate courts with a background of many years experience in
the determination of thousands of cases of all kinds. Surely there
are those who will respect the declaration of what we believe.
"It has long been an American boast that we have a government
of laws and not of men. We believe that any study of recent decisions
of the supreme court will raise at least considerable doubt as
to the validity of that boast."
in addition, the state legislatures have for years flooded the
Congress with resolutions condemning usurpations of power by the
Federal judiciary.
The court today, just as in 1776, is deaf to the voices of the
people and their repeated entreaties: they have become arrogant,
contemptuous, highhanded, and literal despots.
It has been said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts
absolutely. There was never greater evidence as to the proof of
this statement than in the example of the present Federal Judiciary.
I want to touch upon just a few of the acts of tyranny which have
been sanctioned by the United States Supreme Court and compare
these acts with the acts of tyranny enumerated in the Declaration
of Independence.
The colonists objected most strenuously to the imposition of taxes
upon the people without their consent.
Today, the Federal judiciary asserts the same tyrannical power
to levy taxes in Prince Edward County, Virginia, and without the
consent of the people. Not only that, but they insist upon the
power to tell the people for what purposes their money must be
spent.
The colonists stated, "he has refused to pass other laws
for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those
people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature,
a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only."
Today, the Federal judiciary, in one of its most recent decisions,
has deprived the American people of the right to use the unit
system of representation in their own state governments for the
accommodation of large districts of people, and has itself prescribed
the manner in which the people shall structure the legislative
branch of their own government, and have prescribed how the people
shall allocate the legislative powers of state government.
More than that they have even told the American people that we
may not, with a majority of the people voting for the measure,
or with two-thirds of those voting, or even if by unanimous consent,
adopt a provision in our state constitutions to allocate the legislative
power of state government in any manner other than as prescribed
by the court.
One justice of the United States Supreme Court said in this connection,
and I quote, "to put the matter plainly, there is nothing
in all the history of this Court's decisions which supports this
Constitutional rule. The Court's draconian pronouncement which
makes unconstitutional the legislatures of most of the fifty states
finds no support in the words of the constitution in any prior
decision of this court or in the 175-year political history of
our Federal union . . . These decisions mark a long step backward
into the unhappy era where a majority of the members of this court
were thought by many to have convinced themselves and each other
that the demands of the constitution were to be measured not by
what it says buy by their own notions of wise political theory."
Two other Justices of the Court said, "such a massive repudiation
of the experience of our whole past in asserting destructively
novel Judicial power demands analysis of the role of this Court
and our Constitutional scheme. . . It may well impair the Court's
position as the ultimate organ of the Supreme Law of the Land.
. ."
The only reason it is the Supreme Law of the Land today is because
we have a President who cares so little for freedom that he would
send the armed forces into the states to enforce the dictatorial
decree.
Our colonist forefather had something to say about that too.
The Declaration of Independence cited as an act of tyranny the
fact that, ". . . Kept among us in times of peace standing
armies without the consent of the legislature."
Today, 188 years later, we have actually witnessed the invasion
of the State of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama by the armed
forces of the United States and maintained in the state against
the will of the people and without consent of state legislatures.
It is a form of tyranny worse than that of King George III who
had sent mercenaries against the colonies because today the Federal
Judicial tyrants have sanctioned the use of brother against brother
and father against son by federalizing the National Guard.
In 1776 the colonists also complained that the monarch ".
. . Has incited domestic insurrections among us. . ."
Today, we have absolute proof that the Federal Department of Justice
has planned, supervised, financed and protected acts of insurrection
in the southern states, resulting in vandalism, property damage,
personal injury, and staggering expense to the states.
In 1776 it was charged that the monarchy had asserted power to
". . . Dissolve representative houses and to punish . . .
For opposing with manly firmness his invasions of the rights of
the people. . . ."
Today, the Federal judiciary asserts the power not only to dissolve
state legislatures but to create them and to dissolve all state
laws and state judicial decrees, and to punish a state governor
by trial without jury ". . . For opposing with manly firmness
his invasions of the rights of the people. . . ."
The colonists also listed as acts of tyranny: ". . . The
erection of a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms
of officers to harass our people and to eat out their substance.
. .;"
". . . Suspending our own legislatures and declaring themselves
invested with the power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever;"
". . . Abolishing the free system of the English laws. .
.;"
--it had "abdicated government here;"
--refusing to assent to the laws enacted by the people, ".
. . Laws considered most wholesome and necessary for the public
good;"
--and ". . . For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits
of trial by jury . . . ; For taking away our charters, abolishing
our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally form of our
government; for suspending our own legislatures and declaring
themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases
whatsoever."
The United States Supreme Court is guilty of each and every one
of these acts of tyranny.
Therefore, I echo the sentiments of our forefathers who declared:
"a prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which
may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people"
Ladies and gentlemen, I have listed only a few of the many acts
of tyranny which have been committed or specifically sanctioned
by the United States Supreme Court.
I feel it important that you should know and understand what it
is that these people are trying to do. The written opinions of
the court are filled with double talk, semantics, jargon, and
meaningless phrases. The words they use are not important. The
ideas that they represent are the things which count.
It is perfectly obvious from the left-wing liberal press and from
the left-wing law journals that what the court is saying behind
all the jargon is that they don't like our form of government.
They think they can establish a better one. In order to do so
it is necessary that they overthrow our existing form, destroy
the democratic institutions created by the people, change the
outlook, religion, and philosophy, and bring the whole area of
human thought, aspiration, action and organization, under the
absolute control of the court. Their decisions reveal this to
be the goal of the liberal element on the court which is in a
majority at present.
It has reached the point where one may no longer look to judicial
decisions to determine what the court may do. However, it is possible
to predict with accuracy the nature of the opinions to be rendered.
One may find the answer in the Communist Manifesto.
The Communists are dedicated to the overthrow of our form of government.
They are dedicated to the destruction of the concept of private
property. They are dedicated to the object of destroying religion
as the basis of moral and ethical values.
The Communists are determined that all natural resources shall
be controlled by the central government, that all productive capacity
of the nation shall be under the control of the central government,
that the political sovereignty of the people shall be destroyed
as an incident to control of local schools. It is their objective
to capture the minds of our youth in order to indoctrinate them
in what to think and not how to think.
I do not call the members of the United States Supreme Court Communists.
But I do say, and I submit for your judgment the fact that every
single decision of the court in the past ten years which related
in any way to each of these objectives has been decided against
freedom and in favor of tyranny.
A politician must stand on his record. Let the Court stand on
its record.
The record reveals, for the past number of years, that the chief,
if not the only beneficiaries of the present Court's rulings,
have been duly and lawfully convicted criminals, Communists, atheists,
and clients of vociferous left-wing minority groups.
You can't convict a Communist in our Federal court system.
Neither can you convict one of being a Communist in Russia, China,
or Cuba. The point is that the United States Supreme Court refuses
to recognize the Communist conspiracy and their intent to "bury
us."
let us look at the record further with respect to the court's
contribution to the destruction of the concept of God and the
abolition of religion.
The Federal court rules that your children shall not be permitted
to read the bible in our public school systems.
Let me tell you this, though. We still read the bible in alabama
schools and as long as I am governor we will continue to read
the bible no matter what the Supreme Court says.
Federal courts will not convict a "demonstrator" invading
and destroying private property. But the Federal courts rule you
cannot say a simple "God is great, God is good, we thank
Thee for our food," in kindergartens supported by public
funds.
Now, let us examine the manner in which the Court has continuously
chipped away at the concept of private property. It is contended
by the left-wing liberals that private property is merely a legal
fiction. That one has no inherent right to own and possess property.
The courts have restricted and limited the right of acquisition
of property in life and have decreed its disposition in death
and have ruthlessly set aside the wills of the dead in order to
attain social ends decreed by the court. The court has substituted
its judgment for that of the testator based on social theory.
The courts assert authority even in decree the use of private
cemeteries.
They assert the right to convert a private place of business into
a public place of business without the consent of the owner and
without compensation to him.
One justice asserts that the mere licensing of a business by the
state is sufficient to convert it into control by the Federal
judiciary as to its use and disposition.
Another asserts that the guarantees of equal protection and due
process of law cannot be extended to a corporation.
In one instance, following the edicts of the United States Supreme
Court, a state Supreme Court has ordered and directed a private
citizen to sell his home to an individual contrary to the wishes
of the owner.
In California we witnessed a state Supreme Court taking under
advisement the question as to whether or not it will compel a
bank to make a load to an applicant on the basis of his race.
We have witnessed the sanction by the courts of confiscatory taxation.
Let us take a look at the attitude of the court with respect to
the control of the private resources of the nation and the allocation
of the productive capacity of the nation.
The Supreme Court decisions have sanctioned enactment of the civil
rights bill.
What this bill actually does is to empower the United States government
to reallocate the entire productive capacity of the agricultural
economy covered by quotas and acreage allotments of various types
on the basis of race, creed, color and national origin.
It, in effect, places in the hands of the Federal government the
right of a farmer to earn a living, making that right dependent
upon the consent of the Federal government precisely as is the
case in russia.
The power is there. I am not in the least impressed by the protestations
that the government will use this power with benevolent discretion.
We know that this bill authorizes the President of the united
states to allocate all defense productive capacity of this country
on the basis of race, creed, or color.
It does not matter in the least that he will make such allocations
with restraint. The face is that it is possible with a politically
dominated agency to punish and to bankrupt and destroy any business
that deals with the Federal government if it does not bow to the
wishes and demands of the president of the United States.
All of us know what the court has done to capture the minds of
our children.
The Federal judiciary has asserted the authority to prescribe
regulations with respect to the management, operation, and control
of our local schools. The second brown decision in the infamous
school segregation case authorized Federal district courts to
supervise such matters as teacher hiring, firing, promotion, the
expenditure of local funds, both administratively and for capital
improvements, additions, and renovations, the location of new
schools, the drawing of school boundaries, busing and transportation
of school children, and, believe it or not, it has asserted the
right in the Federal judiciary to pass judgment upon the curricula
adopted in local public schools.
A comparatively recent Federal court decision in a Florida case
actually entered an order embracing each and every one of these
assertions of Federal supervision.
In ruling after ruling, the Supreme Court has overstepped its
constitutional authority. While appearing to protect the people's
interest, it has in reality become a judicial tyrant.
It's the old pattern. The people always have some champion whom
they set over them . . . And nurse into greatness. This, and no
other, is the foot from which a tyrant springs, after first appearing
as a protector.
This is another way of saying that the people never give up their
liberties . . . And their freedom . . . But under some delusion.
But yet there is hope.
There is yet a spirit of resistance in this country which will
not be oppressed. And it is awakening. And I am sure there is
an abundance of good sense in this country which cannot be deceived.
I have personal knowledge of this. Thirty-four percent of the
Wisconsin Democrats supported the beliefs you and I uphold and
expound.
Thirty percent of the Democrats in Indiana join us in fighting
this grab for executive power by those now in control in Washington.
And, listen to this, forty-three percent of the Democrats in Maryland,
practically in view of the nation's capital, believe as you and
I believe.
So, let me say to you today. Take heart. Millions of Americans
believe just as we in this great region of the United States believe.
I shall never forget last spring as I stood in the midst of a
great throng of South Milwaukee supporters at one of the greatest
political rallies I have ever witnessed.
A fine-looking man grabbed my hand and said:
"Governor, I've never been south of South Milwaukee, but
I am a Southerner!"
of course, he was saying he believed in the principles and philosophy
of the southern people . . . Of you here today and the people
of my state of Alabama.
He was right.
Being a southerner is no longer geographic. It's a philosophy
and an attitude.
One destined to be a national philosophy--embraced by millions
of Americans--which shall assume the mantle of leadership and
steady a governmental structure in these days of crises.
Certainly I am a candidate for President of the United States.
If the left-wingers do not think I am serious--let them consider
this.
I am going to take our fight to the people--the court of public
opinion--where truth and common sense will eventually prevail.
At this time, I have definite, concrete plans to get presidential
electors pledged to me on the ballots in the following states:
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, New
York, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas,
Tennessee, and of course Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
Other states are under serious consideration.
A candidate for President must receive 270 electoral votes to
win.
The states I am definitely going to enter represent 218 electoral
votes.
Conservatives of this nation constitute the balance of power in
presidential elections.
I am a conservative.
I intend to give the American people a clear choice. I welcome
a fight between our philosophy and the liberal left-wing dogma
which now threatens to engulf every man, woman, and child in the
United States.
I am in this race because I believe the American people have been
pushed around long enough and that they, like you and I, are fed
up with the continuing trend toward a socialist state which now
subjects the individual to the dictates of an all-powerful central
government.
I am running for President because I was born free. I want to
remain free. I want your children and mine and our prosperity
to be unencumbered by the manipulations of a soulless state.
I intend to fight for a positive, affirmative program to restore
constitutional government and to stop the senseless bloodletting
now being performed on the body of liberty by those who lead us
willingly and dangerously close to a totalitarian central government.
In our nation, man has always been sovereign and the state has
been his servant. This philosophy has made the United States the
greatest free nation in history.
This freedom was not a gift. It was won by work, by sweat, by
tears, by war, by whatever it took to be--and to remain free.
Are we today less resolute, less determined and courageous than
our fathers and our grandfathers?
Are we to abandon this priceless heritage that has carried us
to our present position of achievement and leadership?
I say if we are to abandon our heritage, let it be done in the
open and full knowledge of what we do.
We are not unmindful and careless of our future. We will not stand
aside while our conscientious convictions tell us that a dictatorial
Supreme Court has taken away our rights and our liberties.
We will not stand idly by while the Supreme Court continues to
invade the prerogatives left rightfully to the states by the constitution.
We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that
day after day feed us a diet of fantasy telling us we are bigots,
racists and hate-mongers to oppose the destruction of the constitution
and our nation.
A left-wing monster has risen up in this nation. It has invaded
the government. It has invaded the news media. It has invaded
the leadership of many of our churches. It has invaded every phase
and aspect of the life of freedom-loving people.
It consists of many and various and powerful interests, but it
has combined into one massive drive and is held together by the
cohesive power of the emotion, setting forth civil rights as supreme
to all.
But, in reality, it is a drive to destroy the rights of private
property, to destroy the freedom and liberty of you and me.
And, my friends, where there are no property rights, there are
no human rights. Red China and Soviet Russia are prime examples.
Politically evil men have combined and arranged themselves against
us. The good people of this nation must now associate themselves
together, else we will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice
in a struggle which threatens to engulf the entire nation.
We can win. We can control the election of the president in november.
Our object must be our country, our whole country and nothing
but our country.
If we will stand together--the people of this state--the people
of my state--the people throughout this great region--yes, throughout
the United States--then we can be the balance of power. We can
determine who will be the next president.
Georgia is a great state. Atlanta is a great city. I know you
will demonstrate that greatness in November by joining Alabama
and other states throughout the south in electing the next president
of the United States.
We are not going to change anything by sitting on our hands hoping
that things will change for the better. Those who cherish individual
freedom have a job to do.
First, let us let ti be known that we intend to take the offensive
and carry our fight for freedom across this nation. We will wield
the power that is ours--the power of the people.
Let it be known that we will no longer tolerate the boot of tyranny.
We will no longer hide our heads in the sand. We will reschool
our thoughts in the lessons our forefathers knew so well.
We must destroy the power to dictate, to forbit, to require, to
demand, to distribute, to edict, and to judge what is best and
enforce that will of judgment upon free citizens.
We must revitalize a government founded in this nation on faith
in god.
I ask that you join with me and that together, we give an active
and courageous leadership to the millions of people throughout
this nation who look with hope and faith to our fight to preserve
our constitutional system of government with its guarantees of
liberty and justice for all within the framework of our priceless
freedoms.
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