One of the things I admire most about the Pilgrims is that they really were a thankful people. We all know the story of the first Thanksgiving … or do we? The Thanksgiving Americans are celebrating today provides but a very tiny glimpse...
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know/What I was walling in or walling out . . . —Robert Frost, “Mending Wall” (1914) One mark of a free society is that strangers can flourish economically. —Gary North, Inheritance and Dominion (1999) The Nature...
My position is this—I repeat it—I will maintain it to my last hour, —taxation and representation are inseparable. —Lord Camden, speech in Parliament (1767) The covenant idea is nothing but the expression of the representative principle...
. . . In spite everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. —Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (1944) The heart that was made according to God’s own heart, is now the reverse of it, a forge of evil imaginations, a sink of...
The idol state uses the language of compassion because its intention is a messianic one. It finds the masses harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd, needing a savior. —Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction (1983) …Man’s nature...
Somewhere in the fifty years just past is where historians of the future will place an arbitrary line and say: “This marks the Fall of the Galactic Empire.” —Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1951) Social commentators, historians, and philosophers are...
GARIBALDI Oh, I’m an eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth kind of guy, Ambassador. DELENN So you support a system that would leave everyone blind and toothless? GARIBALDI Not everyone. Just the bad guys. —“Passing Through Gethsemane,” Babylon...
The Ten Commandments are the principles by which man may live with God and man may live with man. They are the expressions of the mind of God for His creatures. —Cecil B. De Mille, opening of The Ten Commandments (1956) Most American Christians...
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