Daily Inspiration Quote by Roy Moore

Roy Moore is trying to smuggle a theological anthropology into a civics lesson: the Constitution works, he implies, because the Framers assumed you are morally compromised. That framing does two things at once. It flatters the document as hard-headed realism (government designed for the world as it is, not as we wish it were) while also recasting political conflict as spiritual pathology: power-hunger as a symptom of the Fall, not merely a predictable incentive in any system.

The line “fallen creature” is the tell. Madison’s argument in Federalist 51 is famously unsentimental - “If men were angels...” - but it’s not a creedal statement. Moore’s intent is to yoke constitutional design to a specifically religious story about human nature, making checks and balances feel less like Enlightenment skepticism and more like Christian common sense. That matters culturally because it moves constitutional legitimacy from democratic consent and institutional prudence toward moral authority: the Constitution is right not only because it distributes power, but because it diagnoses the human soul.

Subtextually, the quote also licenses suspicion. If everyone “always yearn[s] for more power,” then political opponents aren’t just wrong; they’re spiritually suspect. And it sets up an implicit exception: those who share Moore’s moral framework may be imagined as less “fallen,” more trustworthy, and therefore entitled to greater discretion.

Context sharpens the edge. Moore is a jurist and culture-war figure, repeatedly positioning himself against federal authority and secular legal norms. In that light, this isn’t neutral originalism; it’s a bid to claim the Framers for a religiously inflected vision of governance, where constitutional structure is proof of human depravity and a warning about who should be allowed to rule.