Rev. Graham continued: "What is the problem? The real problem is within ourselves ... I believe the fundamental crisis of our time is a crisis of the spirit. We have lost sight of the moral and spiritual principles on which this nation was established - principles drawn largely from the Judeo-Christian tradition as found in the Bible...
"When the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate ... they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin."
Coolidge exposed the deep-state bureaucracy: "No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline."
Edwards wrote in Narrative of the Surprising Word of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls, 1737: "The Spirit of God began extraordinarily to ... work amongst us ... Suddenly, one after another ... were ... savingly converted ... in a very remarkable manner ... A young woman, who had been one of the greatest company-keepers in the whole town ... gave an account ... that God had given her a new heart, truly broken and sanctified ... God made it, I suppose, the greatest occasion of awakening to others ... News of it seemed to be almost like a flash of lighting upon the hearts of young people all over the town."
On September 25, 1982, Reagan said: "Unfortunately, in the last two decades we've experienced an onslaught of such twisted logic that if Alice were visiting America, she might think she'd never left Wonderland. We're told that it somehow violates the rights of others to permit students in school who desire to pray to do so.
Clearly this infringes on the freedom of those who choose to pray, the freedom taken for granted since the time of our Founding Fathers ..."
