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“The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.”

Persons Doe Whole Faith Asks Religious Liberty Depends Glory Prejudice Expected Rational Chiefs Justify Justification Religious Faith Religious Liberty Religious Person God Delusion

Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man.”

Men Love God Born Liberty Rational Subjection

Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or their modernist equivalents, are actually forms of militant irrationality.”

Form Liberty Pursuit Rational Organize Militant Fraternity Irrationality

Book:The Roger Scruton Reader

Source: The Roger Scruton Reader

“Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.”

Desire Liberty Equal Understood Rational

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be widely believed that the use of private property is tainted with evil and should not be espoused by rational and civilized men... the only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property. The Good Society.”