A New Birth of Freedom by Rudolf Harvey, O.F.M. Imprimatur, 1943. 26 page booklet.
“That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” — U.S. President Abraham Lincoln (1863).
This short easy to read booklet is much needed in the current state of our beloved country. It is succinct insomuch that a few quotes from the book will be sufficient to draw in readers:
“Human liberty is enduring only because it is indestructible. It could not be indestructible were it not spiritual.”
“What is human liberty? For it is only when the civilian or the soldier has known the answer to that question that he can in the fullest sense of the words give his life, as Christ gave His, in testimony to the Truth.”
“There are persons in high professorial places of our land who continue to speak of freedom while they deny the existence of both Truth and Right.”
“Throughout the course of human history fleets and armies have been the last resort of nations in determining their rights. The international war machine has been the deciding judge in an arbitrament of blood. If this kind of decision be all that justice really means, then the reverend Justices of the Supreme Court are no better than museum pieces, animated fossils, hangovers for an unthinking era when human beings were so innocent or so foolish as to believe in equity and justice, law and sanctions.”
A New Birth of Freedom chapters include:
- Liberty is a Spiritual Thing
- There is Not Liberty Without Truth
- Happiness in Truth
- Goodness is Liberty’s Purpose.
