Words to blog by:

"My thoughts do not aim for your assent - just place them alongside your own reflections for a while." - Robert Nozick (1938-2002), philosopher.

"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire." - Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Trappist monk and writer.

"Being myself a disciple of the Federalists, I respect their practical wisdom." - Russell Kirk (1918 -1994), American writer and conservative theorist.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Enduring freedom is embodied freedom

"The only freedom which can last is a freedom embodied somewhere, rooted in a history, located in space, sanctioned by a genealogy, and blessed by a religious establishment.  The only equality which abstract rights, insisted upon outside the context of politics, are likely to provide is the equality of universal slavery. It is a lesson which Western man is only now beginning to learn. And at great cost."

- M.E. Bradford, A Better Guide Than Reason:  Federalists & Anti-Federalists (Transaction Publishers:  1994), pg. xviii.
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