Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine

When I next real­ized that the Philip­pines had dropped into our laps I con­fess I did not know what to do with them… And one night late it came to me this way…1) That we could not give them back to Spain — that would be cow­ard­ly and dis­hon­or­able; 2) that we could not turn them over to France and Ger­many — our com­mer­cial rivals in the Ori­ent — that would be bad busi­ness and dis­cred­itable; 3) that we not leave them to them­selves — they are unfit for self-gov­ern­ment — and they would soon have anar­chy and mis­rule over there worse than Spain’s wars; and 4) that there was noth­ing left for us to do but to take them all, and to edu­cate the Fil­ipinos, and uplift and civ­i­lize and Chris­tian­ize them, and by God’s grace do the very best we could by them, as our fel­low-men for whom Christ also died…

- Pres­i­dent William McKin­ley, The Chris­t­ian Advo­cate 22 Jan­u­ary 1903 (pub­lished posthumously)

A hope­ful soci­ety has insti­tu­tions of sci­ence and med­i­cine that do not cut eth­i­cal cor­ners, and that rec­og­nize the match­less val­ue of every life. Tonight I ask you to pass leg­is­la­tion to pro­hib­it the most egre­gious abus­es of med­ical research: human cloning in all its forms, cre­at­ing or implant­i­ng embryos for exper­i­ments, cre­at­ing human-ani­mal hybrids, and buy­ing, sell­ing, or patent­ing human embryos. Human life is a gift from our Cre­ator — and that gift should nev­er be dis­card­ed, deval­ued or put up for sale. (Applause.)

- Pres­i­dent George W. Bush, State of the Union address, Jan­u­ary 31, 2006

Jesu — “Your Path to Divinity”