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  You can never have a revolution to establish a democracy.  You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. —G. K. Chesterton, “The Wind and the Trees” (1909)   To an ancient Greek, “democracy” was inseparable from ...

If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.        — Justice William Brennan, Texas v. Johnson ...

“But between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.” —John Marshall, Life of Washington (1805) “At no time, at no place, in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, have the American ...

  “Boy: It’s not easy to become a law, is it?” Bill: “No!” —Dave Frishberg, Schoolhouse Rock, “I’m Just a Bill” (1975)   “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were ...

For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. —John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630) Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit govern-ment either for church or ...

In times of cultural failure and upheaval, there are usually two kinds of extremists.  Those who abandon any established order as a thing beyond redemption, and those who remain within the system, hoping they can reform it.  New England was ...

“I know there is good in you.” —Luke to Darth Vader, Return of the Jedi (1983) As Seen on TV The mass murderer … the serial killer, the paid assassin, the warmonger, the man responsible for the death of dozens ...

Truly answer me… In judgment and in dream. Nebuchadnezzar, “Ancient Babylonian inscription” (6th century BC)   Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princess shall rule in judgment. Isaiah the prophet (8th century BC)   The Terror of Dreams ...

I left the empty life behind. He turned the water into wine. —Dave Stearman, “He Turned the Water into Wine” (1973)   He comes to make His blessings flow  Far as the curse is found. — Isaac Watts, “Joy to ...

Want. Take. Have. —Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Bad Girls” (1999) . . . Miracle, mystery, and authority.  Thou hast rejected all three and hast set the example for doing so. —Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1879) In the Wilderness After ...