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Marx saw morality as the great enemy of human well-being... Karl Marx; the great enemy of human freedom.

— Harry V. Jaffa

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For Lincoln, the principle of human equality, "that all men are created equal", did not admit exceptions.

Is Diversity Good? (2003)

But South Carolina does not repeat the preceding language in the earlier document: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal'.

A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)

Now, throughout history, the right to coin money has been a symbol of sovereignty. If states do not have the right to coin money, they are not sovereign.

Relativism, positivism, and nihilism — modern doctrines which mock wisdom and scorn virtue — have at the dawn of the twenty-first century come to dominate.

Before In History (2004)

Karl Marx; the great enemy of human freedom.

Interview with Charles Kesler (2014)

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