“Human nature being what it was, a measure of democracy was the best protection against tyranny.” – A. S. P. Woodhouse, Puritanism & Liberty
Month: February 2026
“Objectives in practical politics are always limited and generally selfish.” – A. S. P. Woodhouse, Puritanism & Liberty
“We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 2.4
“To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 2.3
“How full of briers is this working-day world!” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 1.3
“The true temper and proper employment of a Christian is always to be working like the sea, and purging ignorance out of his understanding and exchanging notions and apprehensions imperfect for more perfect, and forgetting things behind to press forward.” – Henry Robinson, Liberty and Conscience
“The strong Puritan impulse to action results in the constant intrusion of religion into the secular sphere in an effort to enforce the standards of the holy community upon the world, and in a marked tendency to press on, in the name of that ideal, from the quest for religious liberty to the quest for political power.” – A. S. P. Woodhouse, Puritanism & Liberty