"My everyday experiences as a chemistry professor at an American university in 2021 bring back memories from my time in the USSR. Not good memories—more like Orwellian nightmares."
—Anna I. Krylov, Chemistry, USC
I've heard this from others who experienced life in the USSR. 🧵
“This nation has a banner . . . it is the banner of Dawn. It means Liberty . . . Every color means liberty; every thread means liberty.” Henry Ward Beecher
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” John F. Kennedy
“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.” Anna Julia Cooper
By their very nature, families are the first educators, teaching children how to treat others with respect, make wise decisions, exercise patience, think for themselves, and steadfastly guard their God-given liberties. #HomeEducation#1776Report
The framers also believed that the role of the federal government should be limited to performing those tasks that only a national government can do, and that most tasks were properly the responsibility of the states. #UnitedStates#LimitedGovernment#1776Report
The intent of the framers of the Constitution was to construct a government that would be sufficiently strong to perform those essential tasks that only a government can perform (such as establishing justice), but not so strong as to jeopardize the people’s liberties. #1776Report
For the American republic to endure, families must remain strong and reclaim their duty to raise up morally responsible citizens who love America and embrace the gifts and responsibilities of freedom and self-government. #AmericanRepublic#1776Report
By their very nature, families are the first educators, teaching children how to treat others with respect, make wise decisions, exercise patience, think for themselves, and steadfastly guard their God-given liberties. #HomeEducation#1776Report
Progressives hold that truths are not permanent but only relative to their time. They reject the self-evident truth of the Declaration that all men are created equal and are endowed equally, either by nature or by God, with unchanging rights. #Progressives#1776Report
Universities in the United States are often today hotbeds of anti-Americanism, libel, and censorship that combine to generate in students and in the broader culture at the very least disdain and at worst outright hatred for this country. #ReformTheCampus#1776report
“Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe; let it be taught in schools; let it be written in Primers and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.” - Lincoln
Patriotic education must have at its center a respect for the rule of law, including the Declaration and the Constitution, so that we have what John Adams called “a government of laws, and not of men.” #PatrioticEducation#RuleOfLaw#1776Report