Gary North Quotes

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• Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it. So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political, and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.

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  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• Thou shall not steal, even by majority vote.

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  Majority Vote, Liberty, Libertarian

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• Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

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  Men, Eugenics, People

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• Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew up; he just grew more shrill as he grew older. His lifelong hatred and whining have led to the deaths (so far) of perhaps a hundred million people, depending on how many people perished under Mao's tyranny. We will probably never know.

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  Civilization, People, Hatred

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• Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?

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  Jesus, Believe, Loser

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• This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

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  Christian, Religion, Atheism

  Gary North (1989). “Political polytheism: the myth of pluralism”, Inst for Christian Economics

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• The proper exegetical principle is this: Mosaic law is still to be enforced, by the church or the State or both, unless there is a specific injunction to the contrary in the New Testament.

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  Law, Church, Principles

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• The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant-baptism and holy communion-must be denied citizenship.

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  Christian, Goal, Long

  Gary North (1989). “Political polytheism: the myth of pluralism”, Inst for Christian Economics

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• He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

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  Government, Years, Gold

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• The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offense to take the name of the Lord in vain? When people curse their parents, it unquestionably is a capital crime (Ex. 21:17). The son or daughter is under the lawful jurisdiction of the family. The integrity of the family must be maintained by the threat of death. Clearly, cursing God (blasphemy) is a comparable crime, and is therefore a capital crime (Lev. 24:16).

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  Daughter, Integrity, Son

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• The basis for building a Christian society is evangelism and missions that lead to a widespread Christian revival, so that the great mass of earth's inhabitants will place themselves under Christ's protection, and then voluntarily use his covenantal laws for self-government. Christian reconstruction begins with personal conversion to Christ and self-government under God's law; then it spreads to others through revival; and only later does it bring comprehensive changes in civil law, when the vast majority of voters voluntarily agree to live under biblical blueprints.

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  Christian, Biblical, Self

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• The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

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  Sheep, Two, Majority Vote

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• God is in charge, waiting for His people to challenge the rulers of the earth and take the steering wheel from them, ... the battle for the earth is currently going on.

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  People, Waiting, Challenges

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• Microeconomics: The study of who has the money and how I can get my hands on it.Macroeconomics: The study of which government agency has the gun, and how we can get our hands on it.

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  Gun, Agency, Government

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• Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual.

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  Jesus, People, Training

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• The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the necessary judicial foundation of civic freedom… the Old Testament was harsh on criminals because it was soft on victims.

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  Law, Foundation, Criminals

  Gary North (1990). “Victim's rights: the biblical view of civil justice”, Inst for Christian Economics

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• All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.

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  Struggle, Successful, Organization

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• And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him.

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  Names, Stones, Lord

  Gary North (1990). “Victim's rights: the biblical view of civil justice”, Inst for Christian Economics

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• The primary social goal of both systems of political economy is for middle-aged men to attract good-looking younger women. Democratic capitalists believe that good-looking younger women are attracted mainly by money. Social democratic capitalists believe that they are attracted mainly by power.

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  Believe, Men, Goal

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• Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours.

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  Gun, Government, Promise

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• Grape juice at the communion table symbolizes the historical impotence of Christ’s blood, Christ’s gospel, Christ’s church, and Christ’s expanding kingdom. Grape juice stays ‘bottled up’, confined to the historical skins of Palestine.

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  Blood, Historical, Skins

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• The stranger in ancient Israel did not serve as a judge, although he received all the benefits of living in the land. The political question is this: By what biblical standard is the pagan to be granted the right to bring political sanctions against God's people? We recognize that unbelievers are not to vote in Church elections. Why should they be allowed to vote in civil elections in a covenanted Christian nation? Which judicial standards will they impose? By what other standard than the Bible?

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  Christian, Biblical, Land

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• Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern art has become. Atonal music is to music what subsidized art is to art. ...The fact that cacophony has reigned almost supreme since 1900 is a testimony to Mises' original observation. Atonal music is to music what socialism is to economics: planned chaos.

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  Art, Facts, Cacophony

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• Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

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  Christian, Long, Facts

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• When men see how relevant the ten commandments are for economics, they should gain new respect for the importance of the laws of God for all of life, but especially for the life of dominion man, the man redeemed by grace through faith in the one true Dominion Man, Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Men, Law

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