John Adams, our second President, wrote these words: “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
Other Founding Fathers said the same, because they did not…
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In a free and open society like ours, what’s to stop someone from doing harm to self and others on a whim? The answer: nothing. Nothing curbs our worst impulses but the interior decision to prefer virtue over vice. What…
