If you are going to quote old Ben, please get it right. Ben actually said, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" (emphasis mine). It is amazing how deleting a few words can make such a big difference.
The left love to use this misquote of Ben. How come they don't use other quotes from him, such as,
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith".
Or
"Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants." (H/T QuoteDB)
Hmmm.
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God or tyrants...seems to be the theme of our age. One can elect to follow the Word, and it's tradtion, body and practices, or one can decide to follow the "enlightened" path of progress, materialism, happiness and peace; the peace of the tomb.
When our intellectuals and other elites choose human folly and pride over devine wisdom and charity we are inevitably led not to the utopia of Earthly paradise, but the graveyard of power and vice.
Without the standards of biblical truth and reality to guide us, we wander from one bog to another until we fall head first into the quicksand. The swamps of human vanity are boundless and always open to exploration. And so they inevitably are, over and over again from age to age until that day when Christ shall come to lead us from the fetid waists to the Holy City.
Take heart.
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