Allow Quote by Jon Meacham

What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the…

— Abraham Lincoln

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

— Salman Rushdie

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there…

— Jon Meacham

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members…

— Ralph Adams Cram

“For Croly, the entire process of popular sovereignty exercised through representative republicanism, which led to the drafting, adoption, and ratification of the United States…

— Mark R. Levin

When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to…

— Star Parker

Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion…

— Hinton Rowan Helper

“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and…

— Christopher Hitchens

The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes,…

— Simon Mainwaring

What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a sacrifice of…

— James Madison

the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration…

— Marya Mannes

“Inevitably, as hatred of monarchy was added to hatred of episcopacy, they were led to republicanism.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman