To: bamahead
Frank Meyer once said “A virtue enforced is no virtue at all”. Iows if you force someone to be moral, where is the virtue in that?
15 posted on
02/18/2010 6:49:18 PM PST by
Delacon
("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." H. L. Mencken)
To: Delacon
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may 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
23 posted on
02/18/2010 7:04:48 PM PST by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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