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To: Joe 6-pack
Another bit of Lewis wisdom appropriate for today in America:

"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

14 posted on 04/15/2012 8:35:14 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: loveliberty2

This bit of timely wisdom from C.S. Lewis really sums up where we are at in these troubling times.


49 posted on 04/15/2012 10:17:41 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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