"No nation however powerful, any more than an individual, can be unjust with impunity. Sooner or later, public opinion, an instrument merely moral in the beginning, will find occasion physically to inflict its sentences on the unjust… The lesson is useful to the weak as well as the strong."
–Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to James Madison (1804)The Law of Equilibrium; the principle that (at equilibrium) in a reversible reaction the ratio of the rate of the forward reaction to the rate of the reverse reaction is a constant for that reaction.
Even if our marvelous system of checks and balances were to fail, we the people are the fail-safe.
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"The theology of the cross...prevents undue optimism about our own santification. Even though the Spirit imputes us and indwells in us the righteousness of Christ, the old Adam in us never dies. We are sinners and saints all the days of our life on earth. We regress as well as progress. The struggle goes on."
- Robert Benne
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