Andy Castro

[Andy Castro @andyrcastro]

@therightfrankd @jennfrey Good one! 😆

[Andy Castro @andyrcastro]

"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."

[Andy Castro @andyrcastro]

Paraphrasing Charles Murray (American political scientist), the problem with the elite is they don't preach what they practice.

[Andy Castro @andyrcastro]

Russell Kirk’s "The Roots of American Order" demonstrates the value of a classical education. The Framers of the American Constitution did not invent our republican order from nothing; they were steeped in the Greco-Roman tradition, perceiving both its wisdom and its faults.

[Andy Castro @andyrcastro]

"Thou shalt not kick against the pricks." - Oceanus to Prometheus

The above phrase, made famous by the New Testament in Paul's conversion, is a very old Greek idiom. The Greek tragedy, Prometheus Bound was written in the 5th Century BC.

[Andy Castro @andyrcastro]

"Waste no pains where thy endeavor nothing profiteth." - Kratos, Prometheus Bound

This reads like a line Ben Franklin would steal for Poor Richard's Almanack

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"Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books." - #CSLewis

[Andy Castro @andyrcastro]

Where did the phrase, "pursuit of happiness", come from before The Declaration of Independence? It can be found repeatedly used in John Locke's "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" (Bk. 2, Chap. 21, "Of Power"). Jefferson & Franklin both knew this work well.

- @RosenJeffrey

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John Adams quoting Algernon Sidney from "Discourses Concerning Government"

#algernonsidney #quote

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"I attack ideas. I don't attack people. Some very good people have some very bad ideas." - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

[Andy Castro @andyrcastro]

The Sad Truth! From Jeffrey Rosen:

"I've had the privilege of a wonderful liberal arts education... but despite my elaborate education, I'd never encountered the great works of Greek, Roman, and Enlightenment moral philosophy that offered guidance about how to live a good life."

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Thomas Jefferson quoting Cicero in a letter to Amos J. Cook, January 21, 1816

[Andy Castro @andyrcastro]

Ben Franklin's motto for his own moral perfection project:

"O philosophy, guide of life! O searcher out of virtue and exterminator of vice! One day spent well and in accordance with thy precepts is worth an immortality of sin."

- Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, bk. 5, chap. 2

[Andy Castro @andyrcastro]

How should colleges cultivate open dialogue while ensuring it doesn’t cross into hateful speech?

“Hillsdale College’s speech code is that you may say anything you wish, provided you can say it in a civil and academic manner, in an attempt to discover the truth.”

- @DrLarryArnn

[Andy Castro @andyrcastro]

You can know what you believe and be open to changing your mind at the same time. Agree or disagree?

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

Vatican News video of Pope Leo explaining his spirituality.

Leo told journalists on the papal plane today about why he is drawn to the book described below:

“it describes a type of prayer & spirituality where one simply gives his life to the Lord & allows the Lord to lead”

[Andy Castro @andyrcastro]

"𝒯𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓃 𝒾𝓈 ℴ𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝓂𝒾ℊ𝒽𝓉𝒾ℯ𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓈𝓌��𝓇𝒹 𝒾𝒻 𝓎ℴ𝓊'𝓇ℯ 𝒶𝓁𝓁ℴ𝓌ℯ𝒹 𝓉ℴ 𝓊𝓈ℯ 𝒾𝓉." - ℳ𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝒮𝓉ℯ𝒾𝓃

[Andy Castro @andyrcastro]

The context of the famous line, "The pen is mightier than the sword."

In a play, "Richelieu, Or, The Conspiracy" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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"The way that you write reflects the way that you think."

- Justice Amy Coney Barrett in a recent interview with David Rubenstein

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Today begins Advent. Consider the "End Game" of Scripture:

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God."

Revelation 21:3 ESV