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To: ashukla

Adversity employs great talents; prosperity renders them useless and carries the inept, the corrupted wealthy and the wicked to the top

May they bear in mind that virtue often contains the seeds of tyranny

May they bear in mind that it is neither gold nor even a multitude of arms that sustains a state but its morals

May each of them keep in his house, in a corner of this field, next to his workbench, next to his plow, his gun, his sword, and his bayonet

May they all be soldiers

May they bear in mind that in circumstances where deliberation is possible, the advice of old men is good but that in moments of crisis youth is generally better informed that its elders

Denis Diderot

Apostrophe to the Insurgents, 1782

2 posted on 02/18/2011 5:17:26 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Texas Fossil
"May they bear in mind that virtue often contains the seeds of tyranny"...D Diderot

Virtue is given by God to those remaining in faith in Christ and growing by His work in them.

Freedom without authority is anarchy and authority without freedom is tyranny.

Moral degeneracy leads to loss of freedom and may promote tyranny, but virtue encourages humility, grace, love, and justice.

38 posted on 02/19/2011 2:21:51 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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