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“We have had so many years of prosperity, we have passed through so many difficulties and dangers without the loss of liberty - that we begin to think that we hold it by divine right from heaven itself ... It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.”

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John C. Calhoun

John C. Calhoun was a prominent American politician, lawyer, and philosopher. Born on March 18, 1782, and died on March 31, 1850, he served as a United States Representative and was a key figure in the American political system, known for his stance on federalism and slavery. more

“The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.”

Ifs Kind Long Ideas Law Values Moral Democracy Subjects Creation Creator Objectives Rulers Laws Of Nature Educator Ethos Moral Values Moral Law Subjectivism

Book:Christian Reflections

Source: Christian Reflections

“The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.”

Needs States Theory Ethics Election Congress Feeding Frenzy Enrichment Looting

Author:George Will

“European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.”

“A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.”

Men Force Lays Void Covenant Transfers

Book:Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

Source: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”

Two War Force Virtue Fraud Anti War Antiwar Hype Cardinals Leviathan

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”

Ifs Enemy Our Lives Violence Method Plot Robbers Protecting Ourselves

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.”

Bitter Pleasant

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable.”

Ifs Knows Country Government Care Spirit Revolution Corruption Spread Wide Surface Reform Inevitable Indifferent Incapable

Book:Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait

Source: Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait

“If there is going to be a Big Brother in the United States, it is going to be us. The FBI.”

Ifs States Bigs United United States Brother Fbi

Author:Paul George

“Time is clay; make something.”

Clay

Book:It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: HOW TO CREATE YOUR SECOND LIFE AT ANY AGE

Source: It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: HOW TO CREATE YOUR SECOND LIFE AT ANY AGE

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