by Remnant Trust Team Member | Nov 5, 2023 | Age II, Authors
REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION David Hume About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and...
by Remnant Trust Team Member | Nov 4, 2023 | Age II, Authors
REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Desiderius Erasmus About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be...
by Remnant Trust Team Member | Nov 5, 2023 | Age II, Authors
REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Edmund Burke About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”- Burke b. 1729 CE – d. 1797 CE A British statesman and political writer, Edmund...
by Remnant Trust Team Member | Nov 6, 2023 | Age III, Authors
REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Frederic Bastiat About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.”- Bastiat b. 1801 CE – d. 1850 CE...
by Remnant Trust Team Member | Nov 6, 2023 | Age III, Authors
REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Frederick Douglass About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress,...
by Remnant Trust Team Member | Nov 6, 2023 | Age III, Authors
REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Henry David Thoreau About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “This American government – what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of...
by Remnant Trust Team Member | Nov 6, 2023 | Age III, Authors
REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Herbert Spencer About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. Society exists for the...
by Remnant Trust Team Member | Nov 5, 2023 | Age II, Authors
REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION James Madison About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”- Madison b. 1751 CE...
by Remnant Trust Team Member | Nov 5, 2023 | Age II, Authors
REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Jean Jacques Rousseau About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”- Rousseau b. 1712 CE – d. 1778 CE Jean Jacques...
by Remnant Trust Team Member | Nov 5, 2023 | Age II, Authors
REMNANT TRUST COLLECTION Johann Wolfgang von Goethe About Works Related Authors Return to Timeline “The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.”- Goethe b. 1749 CE – d. 1832 CE Considered the greatest German literary figure of...
