Kevin J. LoTruglio

Ph. D. in Politics from Hillsdale College; Student of Plato, Aristotle, Jaffa, and Lincoln

[Harry Jaffa Quotes @HarryVJaffa]

"The enterprise of western civilization is consummated each time a soul is saved from the dark night of fanatical obscurantism. It is consummated whenever one soul is released from the pessimism that truth is unobtainable, or not worth the trouble to obtain."

[Harry V. Jaffa @HarryJaffa]

Reason means recognizing the idea of a chair in the chair, and understanding thereby why the particular is different from the universal.

[Harry V. Jaffa @HarryJaffa]

"...it is the very genius of Aristotle — as it is of every great teacher — to make you think he is uncovering your own thought in his."

[Hillsdale College @Hillsdale]

On this day in history, Congress enacted the Northwest Ordinance. (1787)

[Harry Jaffa Quotes @HarryVJaffa]

It is a dispensation of wisdom, from the perspective of the Declaration, that consent replace wisdom as the ground of legitimate rule.

[Harry Jaffa Quotes @HarryVJaffa]

"The problem of civil society is twofold; how to select wise rulers, and how to assure that their wisdom is used for the public good."

[Harry Jaffa Quotes @HarryVJaffa]

"Knowledge is useless—or even pernicious—to those who cannot use it well."

[Harry Jaffa Quotes @HarryVJaffa]

"Referring to moral principles as ‘values’ would have provoked blank unrecognition until a time that is very recent."

[Harry Jaffa Quotes @HarryVJaffa]

"Those who deny man's metaphysical freedom deny that man actually has a 'nature.'"

[Harry Jaffa Quotes @HarryVJaffa]

"The problem of human government arises from the fact that the nature of rulers and the nature of the ruled is one and the same."

[Harry Jaffa Quotes @HarryVJaffa]

"A world in which noble failure is impossible, is also a world in which noble success is impossible."

[Harry Jaffa Quotes @HarryVJaffa]

HVJ on Donald Trump? "To prefer noble failure to vulgar success is of the essence of moral freedom and human dignity."

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

Billionaire David Rubenstein said he's donating 18 and a-half million dollars to restore the Lincoln Memorial

[Kevin J. LoTruglio @Kevin2588]

"Our republican robe is soiled, and trailed in the dust. Let us repurify it." -Abraham Lincoln, Peoria Address, 1854

[Claremont Institute @ClaremontInst]

Happy birthday President Lincoln! #LincolnsBirthday

[Claremont Institute @ClaremontInst]

Remembering our teacher Harry Jaffa, one year after his passing: https://t.co/dZkCUit6HH #RIP #NewBirthofFreedom

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Life mask of George Washington, who died today 1799: #Houdon

[Kevin J. LoTruglio @Kevin2588]

Was the Civil War About Slavery? https://t.co/ONQwzAEJtG via @YouTube

[Kevin J. LoTruglio @Kevin2588]

Santorum once again made reference to Lincoln. Love his rhetoric.

[Scott Walker @ScottWalker]

Abraham Lincoln visited the WI State Fair the year before he was elected President. - SW #Walker16 #GOPdebate