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  “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.” —Abraham Lincoln, 1858 I first read this quotation from Abraham Lincoln many years ago, and was... Read More →

The Roe v. Wade opinion of the 1973 Supreme Court virtually altered the Rights of Man doctrine—the universal acknowledgement that every person has the right to life, liberty, and property. The heretofore intelligibly ordained and unalienable social standards by which Americans... Read More →

   You shall not steal (Exod 20:15).   The natural bent of the human heart is to possess that which is not ours. James said it well: “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?  You desire and do not have,... Read More →

One evening in 1787 a young English M.P. pored over papers by candlelight in his home beside the Houses of Parliament. Wilberforce had been asked to propose the Abolition of the Slave Trade although almost all Englishmen thought the Trade necessary, if nasty, and that economic... Read More →