Top 60 Alan Keyes Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.”

— Alan Keyes

2. “Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.”

— Alan Keyes

3. “Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do – for family and for community and for humanity as a whole.”

— Alan Keyes

4. “The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.”

— Alan Keyes

5. “Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?”

— Alan Keyes

6. “It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God’s hands.”

— Alan Keyes

7. “There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.”

— Alan Keyes

8. “There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship. And I think it’s time we remembered that our Constitution was not put together in order to establish the sovereignty of the judges, it was framed in order to guarantee the sovereignty of the people.”

— Alan Keyes

9. “Harden our hearts to the innocents in the womb, and we have hardened our hearts to the need for compassion, and mercy, and fellow-feeling, and charity, and decency in this world.”

— Alan Keyes

10. “Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance civil rights in this country.”

— Alan Keyes

11. “The travesty of slavery wasn’t physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.”

— Alan Keyes

12. “You can’t have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.”

— Alan Keyes

13. “How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?”

— Alan Keyes

14. “A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.”

— Alan Keyes

15. “You can’t build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.”

— Alan Keyes

16. “Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.”

— Alan Keyes

17. “Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description – an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.”

— Alan Keyes

18. “The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.”

— Alan Keyes

19. “Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.”

— Alan Keyes

20. “It’s in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.”

— Alan Keyes

21. “The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.”

— Alan Keyes

22. “Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.”

— Alan Keyes

23. “Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.”

— Alan Keyes

24. “Politics must be founded on the solid faith of God almighty.”

— Alan Keyes

25. “When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.”

— Alan Keyes

26. “Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.”

— Alan Keyes

27. “Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God’s plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled.”

— Alan Keyes

28. “At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character – an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.”

— Alan Keyes

29. “Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.”

— Alan Keyes

30. “When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom, we have surrendered its only real meaning – and we will not be free again until we get it back.”

— Alan Keyes

31. “The money we spend on education should follow the choice of the parents, not the choice of educrats, bureaucrats, politicians, who, unfortunately, have been manipulating this process in their own career interests, not in the interests of our young people.”

— Alan Keyes

32. “We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes – and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.”

— Alan Keyes

33. “We must take away the government’s credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts.”

— Alan Keyes

34. “Rights don’t come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words – until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.”

— Alan Keyes

35. “Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can’t make laws. And if we accept the notion that their dictates are law, then we have not only submitted to tyranny, we have abandoned a republican form of government.”

— Alan Keyes

36. “That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors did or suffered. We are supposed to be judged as individuals, based on what we are able to achieve.”

— Alan Keyes

37. “I want to see my party achieve victory based on what we have to offer this country and our ability to offer it with integrity. I don’t want to see us achieve victory based on the fact that we are better at rigging the game than other people.”

— Alan Keyes

38. “I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton’s willingness to go into a state she doesn’t even live in and pretend to represent the people there. So I certainly wouldn’t imitate it.”

— Alan Keyes

39. “We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that a free people retain the moral and material means to discipline its own government, should the temptation to tyranny take root.”

— Alan Keyes

40. “The First Amendment isn’t about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise – the carrying into practice of religious principles, and beliefs, and convictions.”

— Alan Keyes

41. “It’s about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.”

— Alan Keyes

42. “Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.”

— Alan Keyes

43. “Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I’m not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.”

— Alan Keyes

44. “In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn’t say that all men are created equal ‘if you so choose.’ It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will.”

— Alan Keyes

45. “In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.”

— Alan Keyes

46. “The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors – these are the things that are killing people today in ways that the slave whips and the overseers couldn’t.”

— Alan Keyes

47. “Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.”

— Alan Keyes

48. “The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all created equal and endowed by the Creator, God, with our unalienable rights.”

— Alan Keyes

49. “I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.”

— Alan Keyes

50. “We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.”

— Alan Keyes