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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000003.txt from 2006/07

From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Quote of the Day...4th of July Food for Thought
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:36:17 -0400

The selected fragment is the real difference. Instead of seeing how much
liberty and freedom can be taken away, isn't it far more noble to see how
much freedom the society is able to manage.
Haven't we shown that we can run businesses more effectively than the
government? Hasn't the government amply demonstrated its inability to create
a workable educational system for all of its citizens? They have bungled
agriculture, oil, aviation, health, security, energy; all but war, and they
aren't very good at that yet. They appear unable to perform their primary
function of defending our borders or preserving our culture. Freedom should
not be a relative term.
Herb

On 7/2/06 3:24 PM, "Oboeeee@-----.com> wrote:

>
> "We feel that we are acting under obligations not confined to the limits of
> our own society. It is impossible not to be sensible that we are acting for
> all mankind; that circumstances denied to others but indulged to us have
> imposed on us

*the duty of proving what is the degree of freedom and self-government in
which a society may venture to leave its individual members."*
>
> -Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) to Joseph Priestley, 1802
> ME 10:324
>

>
>

Happy 4th of July holiday weekend!
> Janie
> Atlanta Baroque Orchestra
> University of Virginia
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