Daily Dabble in the Classics

DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS WITH STEVE FARRELL We live in a time where revolutionary forces are attempting to convince mankind that there are no...

DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, CICERO I tell you that freedom does not mean the freedom to exploit law in order to destroy it! It is...

DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, C.S. LEWIS “If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no...

DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, JOHN CALVIN Do not abate your speed, because you approach the goal, ... By too much delay the harvest-time will...

Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen! Martin Luther

Daily Dabble in the Classics, F.A. Hayek Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also...

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens Stave 2 - The First of the Three Spirits When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of...

A  Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens Stave 1 - Marley's Ghost Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register...

AMERICANIST: INSPIRATIONAL POETRY He drew a circle that shut me out. Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew...

FREE ENTERPRISE ZONE: FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES 1776 The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security...

JONATHAN DOLHENTY, PH.D. Logical Universals: Predicables The logical universal expresses the nature common to many, precisely as it is applicable to many. Our intellect considers the...

by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D. Who has not said or heard someone else say "Enough is enough"? The statement is a tautology and, as such,...

RYAN T. ANDERSON, PH.D., HERITAGE FOUNDATION The Hippocratic Oath proclaims: “I will keep from harm and injustice. I will neither give a deadly drug...

JONATHAN DOLHENTY, PH.D. It is an undisputed fact of history that the gems of the American Declaration of Independence are contained in the writings of...

DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The Courtship of Miles Standish I. Miles Standish IN the Old Colony days, in Plymouth the land of...

DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, ST. THOMAS AQUINAS In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the...

DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, PLATO Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most...

DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Intimations of Immortality Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's...

DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, CICERO In the last years of the Roman Republic, Marcus Tullius Cicero, penned his dialogue De Legibus (On the Laws)....

Daily Dabble in the Classics, Frédéric Bastiat It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of...

American Thought Emerson’s essay on “Farming”—first published in Society and Solitude—was initially an oration given to the Middlesex Agricultural Society during the Cattle-Show on September...

DABBLING IN THE CLASSICS, ARISTOTLE Therefore he who bids the law rule may be deemed to bid God and Reason alone rule, but he who...

Western Thought Xenophon—a student of Socrates—writes the first work on the study of economics. But I do not pretend that it can be learnt by...

Western Thought Xenophon—a student of Socrates—writes the first work on the study of economics. I cannot exempt myself from the Calumnies of many of my Countrymen:...

BY SELWYN DUKE Western civilization lied and people died. It lied, that is, to itself. I am referring to Iraq, but not to the hapless George...

Western Thought Xenophon—a student of Socrates—writes the first work on the study of economics. To have an Eye over those, whose Business lies within Doors; and...

Western Thought Xenophon—a student of Socrates—writes the first work on the study of economics. We agreed in the first Place, said Socrates, that Oeconomy is the...

Jim Bludso, Of the Prairie Belle. (Pike County Ballads.) ————— WALL, no! I can’t tell whar he lives, Because he don’t live, you see: Leastways, he’s got out of...

The ASS and His OLD MASTER. ————— UPON a Change of Government in any State, the poorer Sort change only the Name of their Master. The...

Light Shining Out of Darkness. ————— GOD moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the...