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To: chessplayer

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

~ C.S. Lewis ~

9 posted on 12/30/2012 10:23:01 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack
“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.”

G.K. Chesterton.

We need Lewis and Chesterton today more than ever.

57 posted on 12/30/2012 9:43:56 PM PST by this_ol_patriot
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