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To: DJ MacWoW; Weird Tolkienish Figure; metmom

Odd that the “rights” to sex clubs, porn, sodomy, and abortion were not thought to be in the Constitution until leftists “found” them in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

In the words of Edmund Burke, who was studied by all educated men who helped put our country’s founding documents together:

“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites—in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity;—in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption;—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite is placed somewhere: and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
— Edmund Burke


124 posted on 06/24/2010 3:48:52 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah; Weird Tolkienish Figure; metmom

He’s right. A people that cannot control their own lusts need to be controlled by something.


126 posted on 06/24/2010 3:52:21 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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