Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (July 1 1742 – February 24 1799) (German scientist, satirist and philosopher), _Aphorisms (1765-1799)_ Notebook C (1772-1773) C 26
The gentleman has told us there is no such thing as coercion justifiable under the Constitution. I ask him for one moment to reflect, that no statute ever was enforced without coercion. It is the basis of every law in the universe,--God's law as well as man's. A law is no law without coercion behind it. When a man has murdered his brother, coercion takes the murderer, tries him, and hangs him. --Congressman James Garfield [Ohio] (1831-1881), Reply to Alexander Long [Ohio], 8 April 1864, House of Representatives, 38th Session; _The Life and Work of James A. Garfield_ (1881)
Every single pagan philosopher of the ancient world said…the worst form of slavery was slavery to your own appetites. - Anthony Esolen
He who would save a culture or civilization must not seek first the culture or the civilization but the kingdom of God. - Anthony Esolen
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