Will Phillips
Will Phillips
Will Phillipsis an American student from West Fork, Arkansas. At the age of ten, while a fifth grader at West Fork Elementary School in 2009, Phillips gained international attention for his refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance because of social-political reasons...
community liberty doe
The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
political other-half politics
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
character men years
Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.
men liberty prohibition
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
inspirational dream battle
Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
government-debt tyrants people
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
liberty esprit-de-corps stealing
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
government today bigs
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
war book reading
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
freedom jealous people
No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.
differences religion quarrels
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
christian real teaching
The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.
fathers-day imitation discipleship
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
games play common-sense
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.