Thursday, September 08, 2005

"There are two kinds of freedom. One is "no-fault freedom," individual autonomy uncoupled from any larger purpose: freedom to choose, irrespective of the choice. This is the liberal definition of freedom, and it is the one that has taken over in the culture and been imposed on the country by the courts. Quite different is the conservative view of freedom, the liberty our Founders understood. This is freedom coupled with the responsibility to something bigger or higher than the self. True liberty is freedom in the service of virtue -- not the freedom to be as selfish as I want to be, or the freedom to be left alone, but the freedom to attend to one's duties -- duties to God, to family, and to neighbors."

-Rick Santorum