[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 117 (Monday, September 9, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H5410]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
GREECE V. GALLOWAY
(Mr. WALBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. WALBERG. Madam Speaker, I rise to support the First Amendment as
well--as a patriot, as a pastor, as a Member of Congress.
Joseph Stalin, an enemy of America, once said it this way:
America is like a healthy body and its resistance is
threefold: its patriotism, its morality, its spiritual life.
If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse
from within.
President Eisenhower, a patriot, said it this way in October of 1954:
Atheism substitutes men for the Supreme Creator, and this
leads inevitably to domination and dictatorship. We must
jealously guard our foundation in faith, for on it rests the
ability of the American individual to live and thrive in this
blessed land and to be able to help other less fortunate
people to achieve freedom and individual opportunity. These
we take for granted, but to others they are often only a
wistful dream. ``In God We Trust,'' often have we heard the
words of this wonderful American motto. Let us make sure that
familiarity has not made them meaningless for us. We carry
the torch of freedom as a sacred trust for all mankind. We do
not believe that God intended the light He created to be put
out by men.
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