America Quote by John Lothrop Motley

Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.

— John Lothrop Motley

“I believe it was Napoleon who first sensed the ease with which, in modern society, the illusion of freedom can be created by strategic…

— Robert A. Nisbet

As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of rights become…

— Ludwig von Mises

“True moderation in the defence of political liberties is indeed a difficult thing: pretending to want fair shares for all, every man raises himself…

— Livy

I'll pit my God against your god any day, I say to the Calvinists. It's not their god I'm praying to… The God I'm…

— Brunonia Barry

“We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.”

— Armistead Maupin

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of…

— John Newton

“The common Calvinist experience of life as a refugee, or of being part of a host community that received refugees, led to lasting international…

— Thurgood Marshall

“Someone has said that no theology is worth believing that cannot be preached standing in front of the gates of Auschwitz. I, for one,…

— Roger E. Olson

“If God’s love is absolutely different from the highest and best notions of love as we derive them from Scripture itself (especially from Jesus…

— Roger E. Olson

“Most people who follow the old school regarding the post-Reformation have never actually read much or maybe even anything by post-Reformation theologians and preachers.…

— Anonymous

“People who say that Calvinists teach predestination and deny free will, and that Arminians deny predestination and teach free will are simply wrong.”

— Roger E. Olson

The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people have of…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“But Calvinists have never been pacifists: they have always been all too ready for a fight.”

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious…

— Bertrand Russell