The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.

Harry Truman
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The best moral basis that we can have is the basis of our own self-interests. If we do not have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State. We must first believe, as a nation, in human rights, and then take it a step further and believe that those rights extend from the individual to the nation as a whole. We must have a proper fundamental moral background if we are to have a proper fundamental foundation to our nation as a whole.

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