Golden Mean

April 28, 2011 – 3:06 pm

If you look at any vigorous society in its prime, you see a healthy balance between rights and privileges. When either grows too much at the expense of the other, a nation declines: on the one hand toward impotent mediocrity, on the other into tyranny.

Posted by Malcolm on at 3:06 pm, filed under Society and Culture, Apophthegmata. RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

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