25 February 2009

Thoughts for the Day

Where morality is present, laws are unnecessary. Without morality, laws are unenforceable. ~ Anonymous

[On ancient Athens]: In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all: security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. ~ Edward Gibbon

Liberty is not a means to a political end. It is itself the highest political end. ~ Lord Acton

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