“There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great goods without stability and order.” SelfGovernmentOrderLibertyMoralityGoodsStabilitySelf-governmentConstitutionalism Book:The federalist papers Source: The federalist papers
“The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of independence, for the twin doctrines of separation of church and state and liberty of individual conscience are the marrow of our democracy, if not indeed America's most magnificent contribution to the freeing of Western man.” IfsMenStatesAmericaWinningIndividualChurchReligiousLibertyDemocracyAtheismAchievementConscienceIndependenceWesternPositive AtheismSeparationForestsDoctrineContributionEstablishmentTwinsMagnificentChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateReligious FreedomClearingMarrow Author:Clinton Rossiter
“In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be preserved, the Liberal thinks of it as something to be enlarged.” ThinkingEndsSeemsDifferencesLibertyConservativeLiberalismConservatism Author:Clinton Rossiter
“The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and constitutional liberty.... Perhaps the most remarkable characteristic of this political theory sits in its deep-seated conservatism. However radical the principles of the Revolution may have seemed to the rest of the world, in the minds of the colonists they were thoroughly preservative and respectful of the past.” MenWorldMindFirstsMayAmericaPastPoliticalLibertyPrinciplesModernTheoryRevolutionRadicalCharacteristicsRemarkableConservatismRespectfulModern SocietyPolitical TheoryColonists Author:Clinton Rossiter
