"There are a great many God-fearing, dedicated, noble men and women in public life, present company included.

And yes, we need your help to keep us ever-mindful of the ideas and the principles that brought us into the public arena in the first place.

The basis of those ideals and principles is a commitment to freedom and personal liberty that, itself is grounded in the much deeper realization that freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought and humbly accepted.

The American experiment in democracy rests on this insight.

Its discovery was the great triumph of our Founding Fathers, voiced by William Penn when he said: 'If we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants'." -

--Ronald Reagan