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There are those who subvert morality as a means to gain an entrenched power. There are those believing themselves liberal who chart a course that can but lead to our destruction. There are those cynically inclined whose restless impulse is ever seeking change. There are those who are constantly trying to alter our basic concepts of freedom. There are those who seek to prevent men from fearlessly speaking their minds according to the dictates of their conscience. There are those who plan to limit our individual rights to share in the sovereign power of the people. There are those who subvert government from being the guardian of the peoples rights to make an instrument of despotic power. There are those who plan to alter the constitution of checks and balances established to preserve the integrity of our coordinate branches. There are those who seek to make a burden of taxation so great and so progressively increase it in an alarming manner that the spirit of adventure, tireless energy and masterful initiative which built the material strength of the nation should become stultified and inert. There are those who seek to make all men servants of the state. There are those who seek to change our system of free private enterprise which whatever its faults demands the maximum benefit in human happiness and contentment. Finally and perhaps the most deadly are those who seek to convert us to a form of socialistic endeavor leading directly to the path of communist slavery. As a counter balance to those forces is the deep spiritual urge in the hearts of many of our people. A spiritual urge capable of arousing and directing a decisive and impelling public opinion. This indeed is the great safeguard and resource of America.So long as it exists we are secure for it holds us to the path of reason. It is an infallible reminder that our greatest hope rests upon two mighty symbols of Americanism. The cross and the flag. The one based upon the immutable doctrine which has provided the spiritual heritage of our nation. The other based upon the invincible will that human freedom shall not perish from the earth. These are the mighty bulwarks against the advance of the atheistic predatory forces which seek to destroy the spirituality of the human mind and to enslave the human body."- General Douglas MacArthur ------------------------------------ "To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before." -- Rollo May