Santa Anna had previously told the U.S. Minister to Mexico, Joel R. Poinsett, 1824: "I threw up my cap for liberty with great ardor ... but very soon found the folly of it. A hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty. They do not know what it is, unenlightened as they are ... A despotism is the proper government for them."
Henry Cabot Lodge, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Committee, spoke against joining the League of Nation, August 12, 1919: "The United States is the world's best hope ... Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance; this great land of ordered liberty. For if we stumble and fall, freedom and CIVILIZATION everywhere will go down in ruin."
Dershowitz continued: "Darwin's theories were being used ... by racists ... to further some pretty horrible programs ... The eugenics movement, which advocated sterilization of 'unfit' and 'inferior' stock, was at its zenith, and it took its impetus from Darwin's theory of natural selection" ... Thetextbook Scopes wanted to teach was ... a bad science text, filled with misapplied Darwinism and racist rubbish."
James Oglethorpe conceived of an idea for a colony in America where poor debtors and religious refugees could get a second chance. He named the colony "Georgia" after Britain's King George II.
Bryant added: "Using clear precedent, poetic language, and appeals to morality, Francis Scott Key argued that the hundreds of African captives found aboard the Antelope should be returned to Africa and freedom. United States law demanded it, he said. The law of nations demanded it, he said. Even the law of nature demanded it. Key looked into the eyes of the six justices sitting for the case, four of whom were slave owners, and announced that 'by the law of nature, all men are free.'"
