Every patriotic American should read this every day until they realise how tyrannical our government is.

I read the actual article this comes from. I agree that the government is now using the military, but THERE IS NO DRAFT in place. My son is a United States Marine and he knew EXACTLY what he was getting into when he enlisted during wartime. This quote has a LOT of truth behind it, but I feel like it takes away from the men and women that sign at their own will to serve their country...NO MATTER what the fight is about or whom started it. Lets keep quotes in context and stop trying to use them for one agenda or another!

When you want to talk about Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, it seems muddle headed to use a quote from a black man who lived in the late 18th century and was struggling to compromise. Booker T. Washington was compromising with a segregated South and was a masterful politician who won the support of many white people there. He compromised by promising that black people would accept the evil of segregation; he was wise to do the best that could be done at the time. Nevertheless, years and years of segregation have injured a whole group of people. Why can't we do as Germany has done since WWII and try to make up for the harm that was done? Germany can never bring back to life all the Jews who were killed and perhaps no Nazi from the time is still living, but Germany is better. Germany is a better people for having made their ongoing effort to make things right. We too could be a better people if we taught our children equality. You show a whole mindset and a whole structure that is ingrained. I believe that ingrained structure should be 'reformed' in order for us to show that we are what we say we are, a people dedicated to the proposition that "all [people] are created equal." While Dr. King said that people should be "judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character," he also said something to the extent that 'if black people have been kept down for hundreds of years, we may have to build them back up for hundreds of years." If someone stole a hundred dollars from your family, you would want more than 10 cents back (just an analogy). What would the United States look like if blacks had not been kept down for hundreds of years? Would there be a lot more black lawyers and doctors and engineers today?

Also, people seem to forget that the North had slavery too. In fact, slavery started in the North, not the South, and at one time whole towns in the North, used Slavery as their sole means of economics and support, for hundreds of years, then being the hyprocrites they are, they turn an get upset that the South used slaves for labor, which they did first. The war was economics people, not slavery, that was just an excuse.

Everyone has always taken everything else Lincoln said at face vaule, so why is everyone now says this is not what he meant. This is actually his true feelings. Lincoln did not care about black people, they were the tool he used on Northerns to keep the war going. By 1864, they were ready for it to be over, and he came up with this to keep the war going, until it was ended the way he wanted it to end, and the original reason it was start, which was purely economics. The South was getting to serious and the North wanted them destroyed, so they could be in complete control again.

I think that hell is hot and eternity is a long time...... Wow is David Spangler in for a big surprise..

Reston, VA you should not quote this as proof. Benjamin Rush also said: "Christianity is the only true and perfect religion." However, as other comments here have shown, believing in and voicing views on Christianity as the true way does not and should NOT mean oppressing others. Christianity teaches humility and tolerance, and only human pride interferes with that message. Believers are still sinners just like everyone else. Our hope rests in Christ Jesus to save us from those sins. The majority of our founding fathers believed in Jesus. Even Ben Franklin had some belief in God, note his quote: "I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that "except the Lord build the House they labour in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest."

I fear that the inability to write, as demonstrated by these comments, reveals an inability to think. Does Cal think that all of those countries around the world where guns are outlawed are police states or dictatorships?

the quote is from 1986 not a fake from 1994.