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Progression provides no criterion whatever of what is and what is not to be regarded as just. It indicates no halting point for its application, and the 'good judgment' of the people on which its defenders are usually driven to rely as the only safeguard is nothing more than the current state of opinion shaped by past policy.

The Jews put Christ to death, when the New Testament revealed what was veiled in the Old Testament, the knowledge that God, the one true God, is to be worshipped for the sake of eternal life and everlasting gifts and for participation in that City on high, and not for earthly and temporal blessings, which divine providence bestows on good and evil without discrimination.

The complementarity of liberty and responsibility means that the argument for liberty can apply only to those who can be held responsible. It cannot apply to infants, idiots, or the insane. It presupposes that a person is capable of learning from experience and of guiding his actions by knowledge thus acquired; it is invalid for those who have not yet learned enough or are incapable of learning.

Not only are the countries of the West richer because they have more advanced technical knowledge, but they have more advanced technical knowledge because they are richer. And the free gift of the knowledge that has cost those in the lead much to achieve enables those who follow to reach the same level at a much smaller cost.

- if only all of the 3rd worlders could recognize this...

‘It pains me to the heart,’ Martin Luther wrote, ‘that this damnable arrogant pagan rascal [Aristotle] has seduced and fooled so many of the best Christians with his misleading writings. I cannot avoid believing that it was satan himself who introduced his teachings.’

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Religion and patriotism were bound together in a thousand impressive rites; the god most revered in public ceremony represented the apotheosis of the city; every law, every meeting of the assembly, every major enterprise of government, was surrounded by religious ceremony. In these ways Greek religion was used as a defense by the community and the race against the natural egoism of the individual man.

On hawkish foreign policy, on aggrandizing militarism and the military-industrial complex, on crushing civil liberties and granting unchecked powers to the police, on aggrandizing Executive power and privilege - in short, on the major problems of our time, the Conservatives and Liberals are in broad agreement.

...all of the isolationists were simply lumped together as antisemitic, despite the fact that the America First Committee included a great many jews on its staff and research bureau. The situation was complicated by the fact that the vast bulk of American jewry was undoubtably in favor of American entry into the war, and virtually deified Franklin Roosevelt for entering the war, as they thought, to “save the jews.”