[Responsibility2nd]

I used to have this as my tagline. It's still truer than ever.

As goes the American Family, so goes America.

[poconopundit]

Centuries of political wisdom are contained here:

• The ancients who wished to illustrate the highest virtue throughout the empire first ordered well their own states.

• Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families.

• Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their own selves.

• Wishing to cultivate their own selves, they first rectified their hearts.

• Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts.

• Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge.

• Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.

Things being investigated, knowledge became complete.

• Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere.

• Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified.

• Their hearts being rectified, their own selves were cultivated.

• Their own selves being cultivated, their families were regulated.

• Their families being regulated, their states were rightly governed.

• Their states being rightly governed, the whole empire was made tranquil and happy.

Confucius, "The Great Learning" from Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage