Agenda For America, by Haley Barbour: on Principles & Values


Haley Barbour: Return to founders' idea of personal responsibility

The founders of our country were aware of the necessity of personal "self-government" among a democratic people. Individual freedom and personal responsibility go hand in hand. Though government policies play a part, the best guarantor of a healthy society has always been individual citizens and their community organizations: churches, families, and charities. Though the realization that we are part of a greater community, we can revitalize and renew the values we share as a society.
Source: Agenda for America, by Gov. Haley Barbour, p.161 Apr 25, 1996

Newt Gingrich: Leaders of the American Revolution were committed to God

As Speaker Newt Gingrich put it in his 1984 book, "Window of Opportunity: A Blueprint for the Future," our nation was founded on different principles:

"Despite attempts by today's anti-deists to abolish God and religion in public life, it is impossible to study the leaders of the American Revolution without being profoundly impressed by their commitment to God and to divining His will. Even our most radical founding father, Thomas Jefferson, wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." Thus the very document by which we proclaimed our freedom from British hegemony asserted that this freedom was granted to us by God and not man."

The compact of which Gingrich wrote clearly assumed that the state would never tell us not to believe.

Source: Agenda For America, by Haley Barbour, p.156 Apr 25, 1996

  • The above quotations are from The Agenda for America
    A Republican Direction for the Future
    by Gov. Haley Barbour (R, MS).
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