Christopher Dawson Quotes
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
Adams, always accused by Jefferson of having English Monarchist Tendencies, was the only Founding Father who ever advocated an American role of “governing the globe.” When Adams assumed the Presidency, he adopted monarchist titles, instituted the Alien & Sedition Act, and convinced most Americans and their representatives that Jefferson had been right about Adams who lost after his first term to Jefferson. To this day many Americans agree with the last part of Adams statement that we should export the American concept of democracy or what Adams referred to as the “perfection of man.” Adams hated the English and the English King, but was not necessarily opposed to many of the attributes of monarchy.
Christopher Henry Dawson FBA was a British independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and Christendom. Dawson has been called "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century". The 1988–1989 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour.
