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The following article was posted on July 1st, 2009, in the New Times - Volume 23, Issue 48 [ Submit a Story ]
The following articles were printed from New Times [newtimesslo.com] - Volume 23, Issue 48

Invoke a forefather

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Mary Bradley

In regard to Emily Thurston’s June 25 commentary on removing God from the Pledge of Allegiance, I will simply borrow a great patriot’s words:

  “It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.
   “A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom.
    “No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”
                                                                          —Patrick Henry