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[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>:


Quoting from Will Durant's "The Life of Greece"

> They recognize the right of the state to conscript their 
> persons and their wealth for its needs. They forgive its exactions because 
> it gives more opportunity for human development than man has ever known 
> before; they fight for it fiercely because it is the mother and guardian of 
> their liberties."

To America's founders, government was not the "mother" of liberty. Liberty 
comes for Almighty God, as in "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." Beyond
the Greeks' wildest dreams, America "gives more opportunity for human development
than man has ever known before." 

In emphasizing the "right of the state" over the rights of the individual, Will
Durant repeats the priority of your typical socialist.









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