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Mirror When the citizens of a state are morally weak, to demand that its government be morally strong, is nothing short of a display of sheer stupidity. This would be like calling for the reflexion in a mirror to be invariably graceful, when the human visage reflected therein is in itself ugly.
Deserts, not Birthright Freedom is not a self-devolving birthright, but a privilege earned by substantial deserts. If freedom were an inherent birthright, the child would have the freedom of his opinion, the profligate the freedom of his behaviour, the fool the freedom of his ideology, the querulous the freedom of his utterance, the purblind the freedom of unrestrained movement. But do they really get this? To what dreadful consequences might that lead, were it to be granted unto them? Wherefore, our seers commend constant reflection not so much on our rights and privileges, as on our innate desert.
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