Dennis Prager (Screenshot)

“Ungrateful people always become unhappy and angry people,” nationally-syndicated radio host and Prager University founder Dennis Prager told a House hearing on Tuesday.

Before testifying about Google’s censorship of conservative opinions, Prager voiced his distress at how Americans are taught to be ashamed of their country – and warned that a nation a self-loathing nation cannot survive:

“I thank God for living in America. It breaks my heart that a vast number of young Americans have not only not been taught how lucky they are to be Americans, but have been taught either how unlucky they are or how ashamed they should be. “It breaks my heart for them, because contempt for one’s country leaves a terrible hole in one’s soul – and because ungrateful people always become unhappy and angry people. “And it breaks my heart for America, because no good country can survive when its people have contempt for it.”

Prager described how he has dedicated his career to communicating appreciate of America and promoting his life-philosophy that ‘God wants us to be good’ and that goodness cannot be sustained without God: