Sublime

A social conservative by instinct and upbringing, he did more to alter the relationship between ordinary citizens and their government than any other American.

American revolutionary and president John Adams said, “I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, p

Consensus academics articulated the need for tough men of will in politics, using prose laden with metaphors of sexual prowess.

When it comes to the future of our world, we have lost our way in a fundamental manner, and not just on a few details. We must return to principles, but we do not always have good principles to guide us. We have strayed from the ideals of a society based on prosperity and the rights and liberties of the individual, and we do not know how to return

We are a far cry from Keynesian prescriptions of demand-side government stimulus. The role of the sovereign is not to act to override the mechanisms of valuation inherent in the legal order when the signals they send are unpleasant, but rather to uphold them in common-law fashion.

All agree that liberal ideals of freedom, equality, the rule of law, representative government and individual rights can only be defended with the help of social virtues such as fraternity, duty, loyalty, humility and honour.