Alan Keyes

"In the great Declaration of our principles, it didnt say that all men are created equal if you so choose. It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will."

"There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right."

"The travesty of slavery wasnt physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal."

"The question isnt whether you have a good master or a bad master. Its to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity."

"The first principle of a Keyes administration, it will apply in foreign policy, it will apply in domestic policy, it will apply everywhere. There is a God, and we are not him! I will not join the Clinton Democrats who worship government as their god! I will not join the Dole Republicans who worship power as their god! I will not join the Forbes Republicans who worship money as their god! I will stand where the founders of this nation stood, and I will give my respect and allegiance to the creator God who is the ground of justice and who is the ground of all our human rights!"

"Its in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there."

"Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed which says that those rights are the consequences of our mothers will."

"The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion."

"Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges cant make laws. And if we accept the notion that their dictates are law, then we have not only submitted to tyranny, we have abandoned a republican form of government."

"How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?"

"Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that Im not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to."

"You cant 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."