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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (662853)7/20/2012 1:05:49 AM
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Not when 7 out of the top 10 richest members of Congress are (D).

I would guess 2/3 of all Democrats and 1/3 of all Republicans in Congress see their "public" service first and foremost as a means to increase their personal power and wealth.

Revolutionary virtue: the Founding Fathers believed what today might be deemed a revolutionary idea: that only a virtuous people, grounded in morality and religion, can ever hope to remain free.

Liberty and
Virtue in
the American
Founding

harvey c. mansfield

Liberty and virtue are not a likely pair. At first sight they seem
to be contraries, for liberty appears to mean living as you please
and virtue appears to mean living not as you please but as you
ought. It doesn’t seem likely that a society dedicated to liberty
could make much of virtue, nor that one resolved to have virtue
could pride itself on liberty. Yet liberty and virtue also seem necessary
to each other. A free people, with greater opportunity to
misbehave than a people in shackles, needs the guidance of an
inner force to replace the lack of external restraint. And virtue
cannot come from within, or truly be virtue, unless it is voluntary
and people are free to choose it. Americans are, and think themselves
to be, a free people first of all. Whatever virtue they have,
and however much, is a counterpoint to the theme of liberty. But
how do they manage to make virtue and liberty harmonious?
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