Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.
You never want to be forced to do something. But the world around you starts to influence you in ways you never expected.
We are the benefactors of too much sacrifice and blood, sweat and tears to allow petty differences and trivial discrepancies to continue to separate and divide US, while we are being used, exploited and conquered.
… tolerance is essential to protect one's own religion and one's own deeply held religious beliefs from external manipulation or efforts to overcome them, perhaps from other religions that are pushing in the opposite direction. That is the basic reason for religious tolerance.
The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.
Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.
