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

— Rousas John Rushdoony David Cantor and Alan M. Schwartz (1995)

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The church today has fallen prey to the heresy of democracy.

The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973)

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.

The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973)

"The position of Pope Paul came close to being a pan-Deism, and pan-Deism is the logical development of the virus of Hellenic thought."

The One and the Many (1971)

Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973)

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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