Time: Fri Dec 12 17:15:34 1997 To: From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Hearthside, December 8 (fwd) Cc: Bcc: sls References: <snip> > >Hearthside, December 8 > >Pssst, Wanna change the government? Take the cure. > >"I understand by public opinion the sense and sentiment of the >community, necessarily irresistible, showing its sovereign power >everywhere. It is this public opinion which gives sense to the letter, >and life to the law: without it the written law is a mere husk." >Francis Lieber, Political Ethicist (1) > >"The origination and descent of all human power is from God... >Government seems to be part of Religion itself -- a thing sacred in >its institutions and ends... Government, like clocks, go from the >motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so >by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon >men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government >cannot be bad..." William Penn, Governor (2) > >"If a man will not allow his views of what God approves or disapproves >to decide such questions, then some other power, either personal or >ideal, will step in and usurp God's place. A man needs and should >desire to be controlled -- by some power from without... God Himself >is voluntarily controlled by his own law. He does not live >capriciously... He *chooses* not to change. Now a man is either a >weathercock or a slave, or he is a voluntary servant; and voluntary >service of a high principle, or of God, is freedom." E. O. Haven, >President of the University of Michigan (3) > >"A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he >wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth >him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is >vanity, and it is an evil disease." Ecclesiastes 6:2 > >Dave and Helen Delany > >(1) _Manual of Political Ethics_, vol. I, by Francis Lieber; J . B. >Lippincott, 1874 >(2) _The Frame of Government_ by William Penn; quoted in _Memoirs of >the Public and Private Life of William Penn_; Longman, Hurst, Orme, >and Grown, 1813 >(3) _Pillars of Truth_, by E. O. Haven; Nelson and Phillips, 1866 > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > > Copyright: Hearthside Family Publications > http://www.hancock.net/~freedom > >"Subscribe (or Unsubscribe) Daily Meditations" > freedom@hancock.net > > > "Liberty is founded at Hearthside." > <snip>
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