http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress/2011/09/12/what-we-have-become/ My (rather reasonable, I think) Opinion Sun, 20 May 2012 22:20:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress/2011/09/12/what-we-have-become/comment-page-1/#comment-1942 Jim Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:27:49 +0000 http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress/?p=312#comment-1942 I am reminded of quote by B.F.: "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." I am reminded of quote by B.F.: “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”

]]> http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress/2011/09/12/what-we-have-become/comment-page-1/#comment-1941 Kathy Pella Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:53:39 +0000 http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress/?p=312#comment-1941 I would like to think that our nation's moral standards were higher than they appear to be now, but I am sceptical that our government was ever as queaky clean as we might have been led to believe. As a child I recall being perplexed by the fact that other nations hated Americans, when all I saw was that we were so kind to other countries in need. That being said, I believe there is no reason for us not to focus on raising the bar. I would like to think that our nation’s moral standards were higher than they appear to be now, but I am sceptical that our government was ever as queaky clean as we might have been led to believe. As a child I recall being perplexed by the fact that other nations hated Americans, when all I saw was that we were so kind to other countries in need. That being said, I believe there is no reason for us not to focus on raising the bar.

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