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If an election can cause us to lose everything, what is it exactly that we have in the first place?

— Michael Horton What Are Evangelicals Afraid of Losing? (2018)

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Reason quite properly rejects contradiction, but rationalism abhors mystery, which every heresy attempts in its own way to resolve.

Pilgrim Theology (2013)

Anyone who believes, much less preaches, that evangelical Christians are “one election away from losing everything” in November has forgotten how to sing the psalmist’s warning, “Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save” (Ps. 146:3).

What Are Evangelicals Afraid of Losing? (2018)

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

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