Timothy S. Goeglein - 2 July

Praise for

AMERICAN RESTORATION

American Restoration is a clarion call to truly making America great again, by making America good again. It is a timely, prescient reminder that the Judeo-Christian morals upon which the nation was based remain the most solid foundation for our shining city on the hilland that only a re-engagement with those moral foundations will allow us to build to new heights.

BEN SHAPIRO , editor in chief, the Daily Wire

Theres no question that the heart and soul of America are ailing. Its easy to become discouraged and to believe that our countrys best days are behind it. In American Restoration , however, Tim Goeglein and Craig Osten paint a hopeful picture of the future that lies ahead if the people of this great nation will do the hard work necessary to restore freedom, family, and self-sacrifice to the center of Americas values.

JIM DALY , president, Focus on the Family

Over two centuries ago, pundits both within and outside the United States praised the new nation as a shining beacon of hope for its own people and for the rest of the world. Yet today, public opinion polls, media commentary, and everyday conversations reveal the concern that our nation is losing its finest qualities and faces a bleak future. In American Restoration , Tim Goeglein and Craig Osten present a brilliant analysis of our current fight and provide a commonsense blueprint to recover and perpetuate the principles, ideals, and spiritual values that are the foundation of a beneficial culture. This highly readable book will inspire and enlighten a dedicated citizenry to seek and fulfill the promise that our Founders envisioned.

EDWIN MEESE III , 75th United States Attorney General

When I speak about my book If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty , people inevitably ask What can I do? And How can I help turn the cultural tide and keep the republic? Now I have a simple response. Read this excellent book, which has many of the answers to those vitally important questions.

ERIC METAXAS , New York Times #1 bestselling author of Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther

As Christians, we are called to convey hope. And that is what my friends Tim Goeglein and Craig Osten do in American Restoration . They provide a blueprint that not only provides hope, but will help return America to the principles upon which it was founded, that all men have an unalienable right from their Creator to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The restoration of these God-given principles, as outlined in this book, will once again make America a shining city on a hill for the world to see.

ALAN SEARS , founder, Alliance Defending Freedom

In American Restoration , Tim and Craig expertly outline some of the most pressing issues of this century and provide a roadmap based on our founding principles to repair the very fabric of this nation.

KAY COLES JAMES , president, the Heritage Foundation

This book is like a blueprint for those who love their neighbors and wish to see a nation in which that which is true, good, and beautiful is able to flourish. Its full of wisdom from the past and hope for the future.

JOHN STONESTREET , president, the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview

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From Tim Goeglein:
For Jenny, Tim, Paul, Beverly, and Stanley: You are the loves of my life and you continue to show me that the best life is the one enveloped in unconditional love, given and received. Soli Deo Gloria!

From Craig Osten:
For my wife, daughter, son-in-law, and three precious grandchildren. May you continue to enjoy the God-given liberties that made our nation great and allowed true freedom to flourish.

Russell Kirk

Conservatism starts from the sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created. This is especially true of the good things that come to us as collective assets: peace, freedom, law, civility, public spirit, the security of property, and family life, in all of which we depend on the cooperation of others while having no means singlehandedly to obtain it. In respect of such things, the work of destruction is quick, easy, and exhilarating; the work of creation slow, laborious, and dull.

Roger Scruton

If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause, because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that it will triumph.

T. S. Eliot

The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time: so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and save the World from suicide.

T. S. Eliot

Edmund Burke

At least five times...the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases, it is the dog that died.

G. K. Chesterton

The task of redeeming Western society rests in a peculiar sense upon Christianity.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.

Daniel 11:32b, English Standard Version (ESV)

O ne of the most common and recurring conversations across America today is the fate of our countrys culture. There is a belief in some quarters the United States has now passed its maturity and started the long, slow decline to eventual death. As a nation, we have divided ourselves into red and blue camps that bicker at each other like two elderly men playing checkers in the park.

The result is many Americans have concluded that, like many other great civilizations, our nation is crumbling from within. Many surmise that our physical, moral, and cultural infrastructureonce the envy of the worldis dying a slow death of abuse and neglect.

In their view, our institutions have become not only rigid, sclerotic, and unresponsive, but also openly hostile to the Judeo-Christian values that served as the basis of Americas foundation. Our educational system seems to undermine deliberately the values parents are trying to instill in their children while cranking out graduates who can barely read or write, let alone critically think about any issue. Our national debt is out of control, leaving a legacy of crippling financial nightmares for our children and grandchildren. Generations of children have never known the loving stability of the two-parent home, resulting in a continually downward spiral of hopelessness, poverty, and despair.