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The First American Founder: Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience
My book The First American Founder: Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience is available in paperback and Kindle e-book editions at Amazon websites throughout the world. I have posted errata and supplemental comments here. On August 6, 2015, I was interviewed about Roger Williams and this book. A video of the interview is posted here. This video is part of my YouTube channel regarding Roger W
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“Roger Williams died sometime during the early months of 1683. Some of what he said and wrote during his lifetime belongs to the seventeenth century. But much of his historical and philosophical record speaks to us across the centuries.”
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“The first questions naturally raised by a person emerging from the fog of childhood are the same questions that led Aristotle and other great philosophers to think and write deeply on the subjects of first philosophy and ethics.”
― First Philosophy & Human Ethics: A Rational Inquiry
― First Philosophy & Human Ethics: A Rational Inquiry
“During the nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries, certain politically active religious movements sought to have the United States declared—officially, if possible, but at least unofficially—a "Christian nation." This was an attempt to reverse the church-state separation principles and achievements of such great Founders as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Roger Williams, who was more religiously devout than just about anyone living in later centuries, opposed all attempts to call a particular nation "Christian," just as he opposed the terms "Christendom" and "Christian world." His arguments included a profound analysis of the importance of separation of church and state as well as a deep religious understanding of what Christianity is.”
― The First American Founder: Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience
― The First American Founder: Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience
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“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
― It's What You Learn After You Know It All That Counts : The Autobiography of Earl Weaver.
― It's What You Learn After You Know It All That Counts : The Autobiography of Earl Weaver.
“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.”
― The Gathering Storm
― The Gathering Storm
“Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.”
― Speeches and Writings 1832–1858
― Speeches and Writings 1832–1858
“Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
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