When a Culture of Freedom is Lost

Should “listlessness for the preservation of natural and unalienable rights” ever infect Americans, George Washington had warned, then “no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.”

Quoted in Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution by Myron Magnet