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To: PGR88
Freedom can dissipate into license, private license into public decadence, decadence into chaos, and chaos into authoritarianism. Therefore, only a virtuous people can be free.

Yes, and for the record, license is the opposite of freedom. It is slavery to vice.
12 posted on 07/01/2019 10:49:27 AM PDT by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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To: Antoninus

Yes. True freedom requires moral responsibility.


14 posted on 07/01/2019 2:26:36 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Antoninus
Charles Carroll, Catholic Patriot: "My greatest satisfaction is ...
"Without morals a republic can not subsist." ~ Charles Carroll, the only Catholic Signatory...
17 posted on 07/04/2019 8:21:56 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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