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The American Scholar: The Education — Democratic Thinker
Ralph Waldo Emerson addresses the Phi Beta Kappa at Cambridge with an oration that would become known as The American Scholar. "Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student’s behoof? And, finally, is not the true scholar the only true master? But, as the old oracle said, “All things have two handles. Beware of the wrong one.” - Today's Democratic Thinker
Men Have Forgotten God — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God: That's why this all happened." - Solzhenitsyn
Communism: Satan’s Counterfeit of the Gospel Plan — Steve Montgomery
Freedom can sometimes be best understood by understanding its opposite. Well, you might ask, what is the opposite of freedom? A little over 25 years ago, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson, an Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, made a remarkable statement regarding freedom's opposite. - Steve Montgomery
Communism: Satan's Counterfeit of the Gospel Plan — Steve Montgomery
Freedom can sometimes be best understood by understanding its opposite. Well, you might ask, what is the opposite of freedom? A little over 25 years ago, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson, an Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, made a remarkable statement regarding freedom's opposite. - Steve Montgomery
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