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Posted on 06/12/2004 2:19:56 AM PDT by 3catsanadog

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A couple days ago I was reading a thread and someone posted a great quote from C. S. Lewis. Something about how tyrants of do-gooderism can be more dangerous and brutal than other kinds of tyrants.

Hopefully someone remembers this quote of his and can provide it.

Thanks in advance

1 posted on 06/12/2004 2:19:57 AM PDT by 3catsanadog

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To: 3catsanadog

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/2069

2 posted on 06/12/2004 6:03:45 AM PDT by ScottFromSpokane (Re-elect President Bush: http://spokanegop.org/bush.html)

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To: ScottFromSpokane

Bingo!!!! And thanks for the link!

3 posted on 06/12/2004 12:56:42 PM PDT by 3catsanadog (When anything goes, everything does.)

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