R.J. Rushdoony Quotes

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• To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life.

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  Christian, Children, Mean

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• There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

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  Integrity, Character, Government

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• It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is the family. In learning, no act of teaching in any school or university compares to the routine task of mothers in teaching a babe who speaks no language the mother tongue in so short a time. No other task in education is equal to this. The moral training of the children, the discipline of good habits, is an inheritance from the parents to the children which surpasses all other. The family is the first and basic school of man.

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  Mother, Children, Teaching

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• There can be no tolerance in a law-system for another religion. Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law-system as a prelude to a new intolerance... Every law-system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law-system and to alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide

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  Suicide, Religious, Law

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• We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test.

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  Feelings, Use, Tests

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• The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.

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  Becoming, Sin, Results

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• Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.

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  Law, Two, Today

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• To be fearless in the Lord does not require us to be great and powerful men, but only to believe in the great and powerful God.

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  Powerful, Believe, Men

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• It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead for the murderer's life also demand the “right” to abortion. Usually, the same picketers that carry a sign one day, “Abolish Capital Punishment,” also carry “Legalize Abortion” another day. When this is called to their attention, their answer is, “There is no contradiction involved.” They are right: the thesis is “condemn the innocent and free the guilty.

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  Baby, Men, Abortion

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• The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.

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  Government, Religion, Alternatives

  "Anti-Defamation League book -The Religious Right: The Assault on Tolerance and Pluralism In America" by David Cantor and Alan M. Schwartz, 1995.

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• It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society

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  Law, Culture, Lawyer

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• People do not avoid the Bible because it is difficult to understand as much as because what they understand condemns their conscience and throws light on dark corners in their lives which they prefer to keep dark.

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  Dark, Light, People

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• In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.

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  Age, Problem, Sin

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• Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.

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  Godly, Men, Law

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• The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. Abortion is treason against the family and deserves the death penalty. Adultery is treason to the family; adulterers should be put to death. Homosexuality is treason to the family, and it too, is worthy of death.

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  Abortion, Religion, Atheism

  "Moyers: God and Politics", TV series (1987– ). ""On Earth as It Is in Heaven, 1988.

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• Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had.

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  Biblical, Reality, Men

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• Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.

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  Law, Made, Results

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• The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.

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  Christian, Religious, Biblical

  "The Institutes of Biblical Law" by R.J. Rushdoony, (p. 113), 1973.

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• A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith.

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  Real, Men, Totality

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• Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

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  Enemy, Democracy, Christianity

  "The Institutes of Biblical Law" by R.J. Rushdoony, (p. 100), 1973.

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• All men are NOT created equal before God; the facts of heaven and hell, election and reprobation make clear that they are not equal. Moreover, an employer has aproperty rights to prefer whom he will in terms of "color" creed, race or national origin.

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  Men, Rights, Race

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• Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence . . . The law is humane and also unsentimental. It recognizes that some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

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  Biblical, Law, People

  "The Institutes of Biblical Law". Book by R. J. Rushdoony, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1973.

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• Only a law-order which holds to the primacy of God's law can bring forth true freedom, freedom for justice, truth, and godly life. Freedom as an absolute is simply an assertion of man's "right" to be his own god; this means a radical denial of God's law-order. "Freedom" thus is another name for the claim by man to divinity and autonomy. It means that man becomes his own absolute.

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  Mean, Godly, Men

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• Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.

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  Spiritual, Religion, Aristocracy

  "Anti-Defamation League book -The Religious Right: The Assault on Tolerance and Pluralism In America". Book by David Cantor and Alan M. Schwartz, 1995.

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• The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared to what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family's welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world's most successful operation by an incomparable margin.

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  Family, Successful, Caring

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