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Numerous new philosophies were born and sold during the mid-twentieth century in the United States, many of them led by charismatic leaders who promised scientifically guaranteed remedies for everything from sickness to unemployment. With
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“In a letter to soldiers in 1798, John Adams, a Founding Father and practicing Unitarian, remarked: We had no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
― The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
― The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
“But this experience taught me that our civilization cannot survive if we continue to appease the Islamists.”
― How to Be a Conservative
― How to Be a Conservative
“Art isn’t explanation. Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explains.”
― No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
― No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
“Armed with a hammer and sickle, singer and folklorist A. L. Lloyd hit the nail on the head and cut to the quick on page one of his monumental study of folk song: ‘The mother of folklore is poverty.’3”
― Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music
― Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music
“Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
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