QUOTES BY JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS

Justice Thomas: “When my grandfather was raising me, people didn’t talk about their rights so much. They talked about civil rights, yes, but they didn’t simply talk about rights and freedom. They talked more about the responsibilities that came with freedom – about the fact that if you were to have freedom, you had to be responsible for it. What my grandfather believed was that people have their responsibilities and that if they are left alone to fulfill their responsibilities, that is freedom. Honesty and responsibility, those are the things he taught.”

Justice Thomas: “It’s the same thing in civil society. We’re too focused on the benefits of a civil society and we think too little about the obligations we have- the obligations to be civil, to learn about our history and our government, to conduct ourselves in a disciplined way, to help others, to take care of our homes. Too many conversations today have to do with rights and wants. There is not enough talk about responsibilities and duties.”

I couldn’t agree more with Justice Thomas and his grandfather. That is what I feel we have lost in America with all our big government programs it hasn’t help people be independent and free but dependent. A whole generation has not been taught the customs and culture of our Nation. They do not know where we have come from and what principles have made us the most prosperous people with a middle class that has had the blessings of abundances little known by millions in the world.

Frederick Bastiat the French political economist said, “Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”

Ours is the oldest Constitution in the world. For the last six thousand years of human history perhaps less than 1 percent of the human family has experienced freedom, as we know it. I ask this question? Have we been wise beneficiaries of the gift entrusted to us?