January 24, 2007

Right

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No one, I think, welcomes the intervention of federal power in the affairs of a state, except as a last resort.  That seems the crudest of solutions.  It is not a moral solution at all.  In being forced to do what is right, men lose the dignity of being right.  The right itself is debased as an aim and incentive — Wendell Berry, “The Landscaping of Hell: Strip-Mine Morality in East Kentucky,” The Long-Legged House, p. 22.

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