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"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
- Patrick Henry
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The Alliance for the Separation of School and State
"For more than 220 years - from the 1620s to the 1840s - most American schooling was independent of government control, subsidy, and influence. From this educational freedom the American Republic was born." Marshall Fritz, Alliance Founder
Project Vote Smart - Legislator Voting Records
MUST SEE - Voting records and positions of Idaho Legislators
The Committees of Correspondence
Basic Americanism is simply the success formula devised by the Founding Fathers of the American Nation consisting of limited government, free market economics, and traditional morality. If any one of these component parts is weakened … [more]
The Idaho Values Alliance
Our mission here at the IVA is to protect the values that have made Idaho such a great state in which to live, raise a family, and grow a business.
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| George Washington Farewell Address | | Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness... |
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| Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death! | | Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me... |
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| The Proper Role of Government | | It is generally agreed that the most important single function of government is to secure the rights and freedoms of individual citizens. But, what are those rights? And what is their source? Until these questions are answered there is little likelihood that we can correctly determine how government can best secure them. Thomas Paine, back in the days of the American Revolution, explained that:
Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another...It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man... |
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