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Tuesday, July 04, 2006
A Quotation from Thoreau On the Fourth of July America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely political sense that is meant. Even if we grant that the American has freed himself from a political tyrant, he is still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant. Now that the republic - the res-publica- has been settled, it is time to look after the res-privata- the private state - to see, as the Roman senate charged its consuls, "ne quid res-privata detrimenti caperet," that the private state receive no detriment. [“Life Without Principle”] |