It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
and the second is
I believe the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves. And who is more vulnerable, or more innocent, than a child?
Are they both from the same person? Actually, the first one is from an early political hero of mine, the liberal Democrat Hubert Humphrey, Vice President of the United States. And the second? That was spoken by one who is currently seeking the office that Humphrey once held, Sarah Palin, who went on to say
Yes, every innocent life matters. Everyone belongs in the circle of protection. Every child has something to contribute to the world, if we give them that chance. There are the world’s standards of perfection ... and then there are God’s, and these are the final measure. Every child is beautiful before God, and dear to Him for their own sake.
Times have surely changed when some of those of the political party that Hubert Humphrey once belonged to and some of the more unhinged on the left, oh excuse me, "progressive" side denounce Sarah Palin in the vilest terms (which I will not repeat here) precisely because she speaks so strongly for the protection of the innocent.
Here are the text and a video excerpt of Sarah Palin's speech Saturday in Johnstown Pennsylvania.
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