[xzins]

"The great challenge that the founders confronted was how [to] nurture personal responsibility and discipline that facilitates self-government in a regime that is not guided by a tyrant with a whip and a rod," he said.

Great idea that's again repeated. It's truth has been lost on our current culture which is looking for a tyrant because personal responsibility has gone out the window.

[Lakeshark]

our current culture which is looking for a tyrant because personal responsibility has gone out the window.

Slight correction:

our current culture which is looking for a tyrant mommy and daddy figure because personal responsibility has gone out the window, but they pick a tyrant in mommy's clothing by mistake and can't tell the difference........

:-)

[Amberdawn]

Or, as Dennis Prager says, “The bigger the government, the smaller the individual”. I think it better stated as “The smaller the government, the bigger the individual”.