"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." J. Adams

"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
J. Madison

And yet the Left busies itself destroying such icons of virtue as George Washington, beginning in first grade by telling them that the cherry tree was just a story, in other words, GW lied.  Ask any kid who is over 7 (if they have attended public school) what they know of GW and the first words out of the mouth are, " He never chopped down that cherry tree". This has been occurring since 1998 at least, when my son came home from first grade to announce that i had told him a lie, having discussed the cherry tree with him prior to his teacher telling the class it was a lie.

The dangerous part of this is, since World War II - and during it to some extent - the press has not been interested in being recorders and clarions of truth. Since the advent of television and even radio to some extent, creation of media stars has made this an ego - driven, competitive vocation attracting to it not the not the altruistic naif with a curious bentand an aptitude for the written word, but drama queens ( Brian Willliams, Geraldo Rivera) and quasi - sages (Walter Cronkite, Ted Koppel) just to name a few.

The old socialist who snubbed Churchill 's hospitality at Yalta so he could bunk with "Uncle Joe" speaks from his (pinko) heart.

At a time when many states and cities are being strangled financially by public sector union contracts and pensions, we would do well to remember that Roosevelt, a committed statist before it was fashionable, said that public sector unions were not sustainable and could not exist....there could never be public sector unions....too bad that one pearl of wisdom from him has been expunged...

Someone needs to find THAT quote.