George Wallace's 1963 Inaugural Speech January 14, 1963 , text :
(this is you word for word, hatred of the progressives & liberals, enjoy!)
http://web.utk.edu/~mfitzge1/docs/374/wallace_seg63.pdf
We are
faced with an idea that if a centralized government assume enough authority, enough power over
its people, that it can provide a utopian life . . that if given the power to dictate, to forbid, to
require, to demand, to distribute, to edict and to judge what is best and enforce that will produce
only "good" . . and it shall be our father . . . . and our God. It is an idea of government that
encourages our fears and destroys our faith . . . for where there is faith, there is no fear, and
where there is fear, there is no faith. In encouraging our fears of economic insecurity it demands
we place that economic management and control with government; in encouraging our fear of
educational development it demands we place that education and the minds of our children under
management and control of government, and even in feeding our fears of physical infirmities and
declining years, it offers and demands to father us through it all and even into the grave. It is a
government that claims to us that it is bountiful as it buys its power from us with the fruits of its
rapaciousness of the wealth that free men before it have produced and builds on crumbling credit
without responsibilities to the debtors . . . our children. It is an ideology of government erected
on the encouragement of fear and fails to recognize the basic law of our fathers that governments
do not produce wealth . . . people produce wealth . . . free people; and those people become less
free . . . as they learn there is little reward for ambition . . . that it requires faith to risk . . . and
they have none . . as the government must restrict and penalize and tax incentive and endeavor
and must increase its expenditures of bounties . . . then this government must assume more and
more police powers and we find we are become government-fearing people . . . not God-fearing
people. We find we have replaced faith with fear . . . and though we may give lip service to the
Almighty . . in reality, government has become our god. It is, therefore, a basically ungodly
government and its appeal to the psuedo-intellectual and the politician is to change their status
from servant of the people to master of the people . . . to play at being God . . . without faith in
God . . . and without the wisdom of God. It is a system that is the very opposite of Christ for it
feeds and encourages everything degenerate and base in our people as it assumes the
responsibilities that we ourselves should assume. Its psuedo-liberal spokesmen and some
Harvard advocates have never examined the logic of its substitution of what it calls "human
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rights" for individual rights, for its propaganda play on words has appeal for the unthinking. Its
logic is totally material and irresponsible as it runs the full gamut of human desires . . . including
the theory that everyone has voting rights without the spiritual responsibility of preserving
freedom. Our founding fathers recognized those rights . . . but only within the framework of
those spiritual responsibilities. But the strong, simple faith and sane reasoning of our founding
fathers has long since been forgotten as the so-called "progressives" tell us that our Constitution
was written for "horse and buggy" days . . . so were the Ten Commandments.
Not so long ago men stood in marvel and awe at the cities, the buildings, the schools, the
autobahns that the government of Hitler's Germany had built . . . just as centuries before they
stood in wonder of Rome's building . . . but it could not stand . . . for the system that built it had
rotted the souls of the builders . . . and in turn . . . rotted the foundation of what God meant that
men should be. Today that same system on an international scale is sweeping the world. It is the
"changing world" of which we are told . . . it is called "new" and "liberal". It is as old as the
oldest dictator. It is degenerate and decadent. As the national racism of Hitler's Germany
persecuted a national minority to the whim of a national majority . . . so the international racism
of the liberals seek to persecute the international white minority to the whim of the international
colored majority . . . so that we are footballed about according to the favor of the Afro-Asian
bloc. But the Belgian survivors of the Congo cannot present their case to a war crimes
commission . . . nor the Portuguese of Angola . . . nor the survivors of Castro . . . nor the citizens
of Oxford, Mississippi.
It is this theory of international power politic that led a group of men on the Supreme Court
for the first time in American history to issue an edict, based not on legal precedent, but upon a
volume, the editor of which said our Constitution is outdated and must be changed and the
writers of which, some had admittedly belonged to as many as half a hundred communist-front
organizations. It is this theory that led this same group of men to briefly bare the ungodly core of
that philosophy in forbidding little school children to say a prayer. And we find the evidence of
that ungodliness even in the removal of the words "in God we trust" from some of our dollars,
which was placed there as like evidence by our founding fathers as the faith upon which this
system of government was built. It is the spirit of power thirst that caused a President in
Washington to take up Caesar's pen and with one stroke of it make a law. A Law which the law
making body of Congress refused to pass . . . a law that tells us that we can or cannot buy or sell
our very homes, except by his conditions . . . and except at HIS descretion. It is the spirit of
power thirst that led the same President to launch a full offensive of twenty-five thousand troops
against a university . . . of all places . . . in his own country . . . and against his own people, when
this nation maintains only six thousand troops in the beleagured city of Berlin. We have
witnessed such acts of "might makes right" over the world as men yielded to the temptation to
play God . . . but we have never before witnessed it in America. We reject such acts as free men.
We do not defy, for there is nothing to defy . . . since as free men we do not recognize any
government right to give freedom . . . or deny freedom. No government erected by man has that
right. As Thomas Jefferson said, "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; no
King holds the right of liberty in his hands." Nor does any ruler in American government.
We intend, quite simply, to practice the free heritage as bequeathed to us as sons of free
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