. . . Let your wisdom and godliness appear, not only in choosing such persons as will entirely love and promote the common good, but also in yielding them all due honour and obedience in their lawful administrations… —John Robinson in Bradford’s...
Who was that masked man? — The Lone Ranger radio series (1933) They call me Hawkeye. That’s from The Last of the Mohicans, the only book my father ever read. —Dr. Benjamin Pierce, “A Full Rich Day,” M*A*S*H (1974) The First “Hawkeye” D...
It then belongs to princes to know how far they may extend their authority, and to subjects in what they may obey them . . . . —Junius Brutus, A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579) Temporal authority is ministerial or delegated authority...
“Only a Sith deals in absolutes” —Obi-Wan Kenobi Freedom and Nature Discussions about liberty have to begin with definitions and of course, include reference points. After all, no one is free to do anything and everything that they want to...
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...
Who was that masked man? — The Lone Ranger radio series (1933) They call me Hawkeye. That’s from The Last of the Mohicans, the only book my father ever read. —Dr. Benjamin Pierce, “A Full Rich Day,” M*A*S*H (1974) The First “Hawkeye” D. H...
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...
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. —John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price...
Let earth receive her King. —Isaac Watts Incarnation and Politics The word incarnate means “in the flesh.” For the pagan world, the State was God incarnate. The pagan world worshipped god-kings, and raised pyramids and ziggurats to the religion...
The dawn of history reveals a humanity already civilized. —G. K. Chesterton Ooparts Ooparts are out-of-place-artifacts. It’s an unusual term coined by cryptozoologist, Ivan T. Sanderson. They are pieces of civilization, often of a very...
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