Our fathers’ God, to Thee, Author of liberty, to Thee we sing. —Samuel Francis Smith, “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” (1831) Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else. . . . —The Declaration of the Rights of Man...
Covenant was to be a lasting theme in Scottish Reformation and its aftermath, one in which they would go far beyond Calvin. —Douglas Kelly, The Emergence of Liberty in the Modern World (1992) Scotland became Europe’s first modern literate...
A long time ago in Ireland there lived a man named Columba who loved books. —Jean Fritz, The Man Who Loved Books (1981) My son, I tell thee soothfastlie;/ No gift is like libertie;/ Then never live in slaverie. —a translated precept from...
Locke held that all legitimate governments rest on consent. Society is not natural to man, but rather conventional. —Rousas J. Rushdoony, The Roots of Reconstruction (1991) Indeed, to respect autonomy is often understood to be the chief way to...
And what is liberty? Can it be limited, or is true liberty only unlimited liberty? —Rousas J. Rushdoony, Law and Liberty (1977) Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord/But you’re gonna have to serve somebody. —Bob Dylan, Gotta Serve...
None doth, then, resist the ordinance of God who resist the king in tyrannous acts. —Samuel Rutherford, Lex Rex, (1644) That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish...
Part and parcel of Baalism, and of all non-Christian philosophies, is statism, the absolute rule of man over other men by means of force. —James Jordan, Judges (1985) Judgment Unto Salvation The Midianites invaded from the east. Every harvest...
This article is part of “The Biblical Foundations For Freedom” series. “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” —Douglas Adams “Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it...
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