This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.

The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer.

In our observances this Memorial Day, we honor the brave Americans who paid the highest price for their commitment to the ideals of peace, freedom, and justice. Our debt to them can be paid only by our own recommitment to preserving those same ideals.

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.