The Field Where Liberty Was Sown :: SteynOnline

Security of the person, property rights, religious freedom, due process… The core animating principles of modern free societies began in that muddy field in Runnymede eight centuries ago. That’s why it’s the most important anniversary of the year: when the pampered, solipsistic beneficiaries of an 800-year inheritance start to lose the habits of liberty, only…

Security of the person, property rights, religious freedom, due process… The core animating principles of modern free societies began in that muddy field in Runnymede eight centuries ago. That’s why it’s the most important anniversary of the year: when the pampered, solipsistic beneficiaries of an 800-year inheritance start to lose the habits of liberty, only darkness lies ahead. Better to re-learn the old lessons while we still can.

via The Field Where Liberty Was Sown :: SteynOnline.

The 800th Anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta.

We risk a great deal when we foreswear our commitment to liberty.

Liberty is hard. It takes work, effort. I fear we’ve lost that ethic.

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  1. Gunny G

    Reblogged this on BLOGGING BAD… Gunny G….

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  2. ultimaratioregis

    We have not simply lost it. We have had it deliberately subverted. With the concomitant efforts to disarm those who object. Tyranny in all its forms is a bitter pill.

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  3. SFC Dunlap 173d RVN

    CONSTANT work & effort!!! No rest!

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  4. scottthebadger

    Too many people want to be taken care of by the Government, not enough are willing to work for a living, nor to stand up for our rights.

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