Friends

"Be still, and know that I am God." Psalm 46:10

Gordon Craig on the role of German liberals in the Kulturkampf against Catholics in the 1870's: "...they blindly approved the same kind of persecution of individuals that they had fought, honourably if vainly, during the constitutional crisis in Prussia. In the name of freedom they underwrote laws that denied it, and placed their party, which pretended to maintain the cause of the individual against arbitrary authority, squarely behind a state that recognized no limits to its power. Even if Bismarck had not abandoned and broken them in 1879, it is doubtful whether they could have survived this betrayal of their own philosophy."

Which makes me think of Lukacs who criticizes some American conservatives for hating liberals more than they love liberty.