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- Alexander's Column · Sep 3, 20042004 Republican Convention
called to lead the cause of freedom in a new century. I believe that millions in the Middle East plead in silence for their liberty. I believe that, given … nation rose. ... This young century will be liberty’s century. ... Now we go forward grateful for our freedom, faithful to our cause, and confident in the future of the greatest
- Alexander's Column · Jul 2, 2004The Better Angels of Our Republic
campaigns against determined enemies -- foreign and domestic -- enemies bent upon the destruction of liberty and free enterprise, and the Judeo-Christian foundation of our great Republic. And whether our nation … each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” They knew the cause of liberty was risky. And, yet, our Founders had great confidence in the rightness of that
- Alexander's Column · May 28, 2004The Iraqi Horizon
Bush outlined five steps in assisting free Iraqis to realize their aspirations for a liberty-based government. He noted that despite the difficulties, U.S.-led coalition troops and coalition reconstruction … return of tyranny to Iraq would be an unprecedented terrorist victory and a cause for killers to rejoice. It would also embolden the terrorists, leading to more bombings, more beheadings
- Alexander's Column · Apr 9, 2004Resurrection Day 2004: Choose Life!
domestic “culture wars,” severe disagreements over the primacy or subordination of religious liberty to factional interests are calling into question whether the free exercise of faith can survive … been done by him.” In another sense, though, the Easter events serve the cause of divine justice, as Jesus Christ crucified, in references to Passover, is likened to the spotless
- Alexander's Column · Dec 19, 2003Ace (in the) hole...
Iraqi people is certain to augur well for the increasing turn to liberty the Iraqi Governing Council promises. Iraqis who may have withheld support for their new government-in-formation … Party he ran. After all, if Saddam wouldn’t fight for his own cause, by what logic should anybody else blow himself up in his shameful name?” --John Podhoretz
- Alexander's Column · Nov 26, 2003A Patriot’s Thanksgiving
Massachusetts Bay Colony, meditated on the task before the colonists seeking religious liberty: “We will be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon … deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story
- Alexander's Column · Nov 14, 2003Reconstruction and deconstruction...
people are with those who wear our country’s uniform. They serve a great cause and they follow a great tradition, handed down to them by America’s veterans.” --President … questions arise: Are the peoples of the Middle East somehow beyond the reach of liberty? Are millions of men and women and children condemned by history or culture to live
- Alexander's Column · Sep 12, 2003The Bush Doctrine — A Retrospective
hour and ten minutes, a cadre of 19 Islamists killed 3,016 Americans and caused $50 billion in property damage and economic loss, which, in turn, extended the economic recession … died at the World Trade Center two years ago, we were reminded that Lady Liberty was within earshot. Those names reflected family origins from around the world, including many from
- Alexander's Column · Jul 3, 2003Samuel Adams — The Declaration Revisited
broken. Esto perpetua, is our ardent wish; but upon the terms only of equal liberty.” Adams often wrote anonymously, as do we; among his more colorful pseudonyms were “A Chatterer … humilitas, in “political literature ... as selfless as politics itself, designed to promote its cause, not its author.” Samuel Adams studied the classics and science, eventually earning a master’s degree
- Alexander's Column · Mar 21, 2003UN Blues
yield nuclear-warhead bunker augers in combination with conventional bunker-busters, which can cause a really bad day for even the deepest bunker dwellers. In other words, if Saddam uses … about 250,000 American “human shields” -- our U.S. armed forces who are defending our liberty and our national security on orders from their Commander-in-Chief to confront the enemy
- Alexander's Column · Mar 7, 2003Thunder on the Horizon
people,” and that a biological attack in a single U.S. city could cause $750 billion in economic damage, while chemical attacks in malls or movie theaters could cost the economy … lives of millions. America’s interest in security and America’s belief in liberty both lead in the same direction -- to a free and peaceful Iraq.” --President George W. Bush
- Alexander's Column · Jan 31, 20032003 SOTU
bunker busters but the new low-yield nuclear bunker augers which can cause a really bad day for even the deepest bunker dweller. Closing Remarks: “America is a strong nation … strength. We exercise power without conquest, and sacrifice for the liberty of strangers. Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person
- Alexander's Column · Dec 23, 2002Christmas 2002: The One True Gift
himself than I have -- However under a full perswation of the justice of our Cause I cannot but think the prospect will brighten.” But these surprising victories were followed … writing of “A character to lose -- an estate to forfeit -- the inestimable blessing of liberty at stake -- and a life devoted, must be my excuse,” and about
- Alexander's Column · Nov 27, 2002Thanksgiving 2002: The Shining City on a Hill
Massachusetts Bay Colony, meditated on the task before the colonists seeking religious liberty: “We will be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon … deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story
- Alexander's Column · Sep 13, 2002Post 9-11 — Year One
every life is the gift of a Creator who intended us to live in liberty and equality. More than anything else, this separates us from the enemy we fight … will finish. ... A milestone is passed, and a mission goes on. ...Ours is the cause of human dignity; freedom guided by conscience and guarded by peace. This ideal of America
- Alexander's Column · Jul 4, 2002Independence Day 2002 - Common Sense
firebrand pamphleteer Thomas Paine -- who penned the original defense of the American Revolutionary cause “Common Sense” -- come to mind.) But all of them were men of serious ideas. And they … endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness -- that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving
- Alexander's Column · Dec 25, 2001Christmas 2001: Sacrificial Gifts
himself than I have--However under a full perswation of the justice of our Cause I cannot but think the prospect will brighten.” But these surprising victories were followed … writing of “A character to lose-- an estate to forfeit-- the inestimable blessing of liberty at stake-- and a life devoted, must be my excuse,” and about
- Alexander's Column · Sep 28, 2001Taking the battle to the enemy
send him and anybody who has ever drawn a breath in support of his cause to the morgue. That’s the Jihad way. Success will require a significant allocation … them know that the price for attacking the world’s engine of liberty is sudden death. Mr. Bush is also correct to keep our ultimate objective front and center
- Alexander's Column · Jul 4, 2001Our Favorite Founding Father
broken. Esto perpetua, is our ardent wish; but upon the terms only of equal liberty.” Adams often wrote anonymously, as we do; among his more colorful pseudonyms were “A Chatterer … selfless as politics itself, designed to promote its cause, not its author.” Adams believed, as we do, that liberty and virtue are inseparable: “Liberty will not long survive the total
- Alexander's Column · Dec 22, 2000Christmas 2000: The Star Seen Round the World
supreme irony! On the very ground on which our forefathers stood to defend liberty and create a new country, the very thing they fought and died for is being suppressed … himself than I have--However under a full perswation of the justice of our Cause I cannot but think the prospect will brighten.” But these surprising victories were followed