"That is why so many historic churches are burning these days. If the extreme leftists manage to cut Christian roots out of Europe, it will never be Europe again and Western civilization will fall forever. "
--Branko Grims, former chairman of the Slovenian intelligence and security services oversight committee and a member of the justice, foreign policy, and constitutional committees.
"In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. "
-- James Monroe, speech to the US Congress on December 2, 1823