Quote du Jour

Liberty is the greatest blessing that men enjoy, and slavery the heaviest curse that human nature is capable of…Those who are governed at the will of another, or others, and whose property may be taken from them by taxes or otherwise without their own consent and against their wills are in the miserable condition of slaves.

– Stephen Hopkins, “The Rights of Colonies Examined” in Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776, 507-508.

QUOTE DU JOUR

Human nature manifests itself universally in the quest for freedom. Political self-government emanates from individual self-control.- Joyce Appleby, Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination, 1.

Noll’s lecture on Race, Religion, and American Politics

Mark A. Noll, perhaps the most proninent Christian Historian in American soil, gave a series of lecture on “Race, Religion, and American Politics from Nat Turner to George W. Bush” at Princeton University. Click here to listen

Part 1: ``The Bible, Slavery, and the Irrepressible Conflict`
Pt 2 – Race, Religion, and American Politics from Nat Turner to George W. Bush
Pt 3 – Race, Religion, and American Politics from Nat Turner to George W. Bush