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.")
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)
To: Antoninus
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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