137 Quotes by Alan Keyes

It’s like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.

Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do – for family and for community and for humanity as a whole.

It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God’s hands.

There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship. And I think it’s time we remembered that our Constitution was not put together in order to establish the sovereignty of the judges, it was framed in order to guarantee the sovereignty of the people.

The question isn’t whether you have a good master or a bad master. It’s to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.

The travesty of slavery wasn’t physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

Rights don’t come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words – until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

There’s not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.

You can’t have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.