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According to poll results, most students are supportive of the government's role in solving social problems, a basic tenent of the liberal creed. But alone, this basic belief is not enough. Instead, what is needed is a greater amount of dialogue among liberal groups on campus. Debate needs to be elevated above the shouting match of incommensurable aims and instead appeal to higher ideals and a common ground. Campus conservatives have become notorious for hosting their "Coming Out Dinner," an inappropriately-named social event to bolster solidarity. Perhaps what liberals need is a dinner party of their...
...direct lineal descendant of the great Puritan preacher Roger Williams, who founded the colony of Rhode Island. There are remarkable parallels in the careers of the two men. though three centuries separate them. Individual freedom is the primary concern of both their lives. Williams wrote The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience (1644), and Goldwater wrote The Conscience of a Conservative (1960). Williams led the fight against religious regimentation in his day, just as Goldwater leads the struggle against government regimentation in our times. Both were special friends to the American Indians and to their fellow citizens...
Well, let us go for a moment to St. Augustine's treatise on the City of God, v. 19, where the deity, in all wisdom, says, "Per me reges regnant et tyranni per me tenent terram," "through me kings rule and tyrants hold their power." Later, in the Sententiae of St. Isidore of Seville, iii 48, we find a long explanation of the sanctions of the tyrant's rule centering around a dictum of the Prophet Hosea "I shall give them a king in my wrath." Gregory the Great, in his commentary on the Book of Job, insists that...
...case has periodically been presented, Milton, Roger Williams, Thomas Paine were former instruments, and every case for toleration stated since has looked back to the "Bloody Tenent" or to "Arepagitica". The mind of philosophic insight takes intellectual freedom as an axiom...
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