Alexander Brown

“When God opens our eyes to see the beauty of Christ and His gospel, it is entirely His work. He opens our blind eyes to give us the miracle of spiritual sight.”
― John Samson, Twelve What Abouts: Answering Common Objections Concerning God's Sovereignty in Election

“We are, each of us, a multitude. I am not the man I was this morning, nor the man of yesterday. I am a throng of myself queued through time. We are, gentle reader, each a crowd within a crowd. —Folkways and Right of Ways in the Silk Gardens, Anon.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx

“None of this means that government does not have a very real function. Indeed, the tragedy is that because government is doing so many things it ought not to be doing, it performs the functions it ought to be performing badly. The basic functions of government are to defend the nation against foreign enemies, to prevent coercion of some individuals by others within the country, to provide a means of deciding on our rules, and to adjudicate disputes.3”
― Milton Friedman, Why Government Is the Problem (Essays in Public Policy Book 39)

“although crimes may win an empire, they do not win glory.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince