An aspect of the illuminated understanding upon which our once noble, once glorious, Republic ascended to greatness.

Indeed, we once minded well our own house.

The declension of the greatness of any civilization is an unfailing concomitant of
the declension of the Virtue nurtured nobility of its once personal Sovereignty minded People.

As Sovereignty devolves from the Individual
to the State, tyranny necessarily rises, as inherently corruptive to Man, in his radical fallenness, as is distilled power that is unconstrained by Virtue and Law.

Temporal centers of power, administrative/bureaucratic hierarchies, are loveless by their unnatural natures.

Ultimately, Liberty is a state of spiritual and mental being, the vitality of which is sustained by Virtue.

My preceding vote I cast in error.

As no less a lightless Communist luminary
than Mao expressed it:

" Communism has nothing to do with love.
Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy. "

Altruism? Hardly.

The true dignity of every individual resides in the singularity of his or her individuality.

The American Ideal is that of a polity peopled by Sovereign Individuals.

To the collectivist, human beings are little more than cattle/chattel, to be directed and disposed of according to the dictates of the requirements of the State.

As it is written:

"And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand."

~ Mark 3:25

Woe unto those treacherous, lightless and death dealing power mongers who would balkanize our Republic and render it a fetid, flyblown, utterly ungovernable other than by totalitarian means, latter day Babel.

Where Virtue resides, a Republic can abide.

A sententious and irreproachable statement of the American ideal.

Walter Lippman, a practitioner of journalism in a day in which journalism was still being practiced, to an extent, in America.

By comparison with the crypto-propagandists of this benighted day, a paragon.

Our illustrious Founder's critics, contemporary and historical, have yet to proffer a better idea than did they.

Indeed, our Nobleman of Nature Founding Fathers established a polity in which we are at liberty to:

" Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land, unto all of the inhabitants thereof."

~ Leviticus 25:10

Ultimately, Freedom is a state of spiritual and mental being.

As it is written:

" Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty."

Indeed, the Man of Common Sense is not, necessarily, so common in his constitution or capabilities.

Mr. Madison was a true colossus.

A noble patrimony it is that he and his commensurately illustrious fellows bequeathed to us.

E Archer, I honor you.

I greatly value your unfailingly exemplary commentaries. Thank you.

The only truly noble government is the self government exercised by Sovereign Individuals.

The antithesis of righteousness.

A malady that is regnant, if not endemic, on this planet, which renders it a fearsome monument to the radical fallenness of Man.

In the absence of Virtue, there can be no right convictions. In the absence of right convictions, there can be no moral authority. In the absence of moral authority, the capacity born of courage to freely communicate the Truth cannot abide.

Declensions of journalistic practice and of press freedom are inevitable concomitants of the effects that the general declension of private and public virtue has on a civilization.

For anyone to be immoderately indecisive and without convictions is for him to be a moderate, characteristically.

The liberality of the live and let live ideal is practicable only in the presence of Virtue.

The only fabric on which the American Republic can rightly rest is the illumined CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE.

The Creation of the world is the victory of order, under the aegis of the ultimate creative force, which is Love, over the forces of looming chaos.

In this instance, the ordinarily irreproachably astute Mr. Adams errs in his underestimation of the vitality and viability
of Liberty.

Where Love is, there is Liberty.
Where Liberty is, there is Love.

Love and Liberty are illimitable.

They cannot not triumph over tyranny, which is, by its unnatural nature, self limiting.

If Man, in his fallenness, were not as frail as he is and as commonly ill equipped as he is to differentiate, with right discernment, between Liberty and licentiousness, Libertarianism would be an eminently realizable ideal.

They to whom licentiousness is liberty cannot but be in bondage, for in the absence of Virtue no actual Freedom can exist to be known.