On Feb 6, 2009, at 7:11 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
And a principle enabler of that opportunity was a people unshackled
by
restraining government and class structures, free to make the most
those opportunities through hard work.
This is the concept of everyman as "noble savage."
No, this is the concept of the rights of man. That man is not a
subject of a king bound to a station by birth, but responsible for
their own destiny - imperfect, often selfish, but endowed by their
creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. You might recognize that last
part.
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