What is the opposite of virtue? Vice. Look around you and ask yourself which is becoming more prevalent in society?
"While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security"-- John Adams
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”-- Thomas Jefferson
“No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue.” --George Mason
“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.” --Edmund Burke
“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.” --Frederick Douglass (Political correctness and "hate crime" laws come to mind here.)
Blessings
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"For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God."
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