The first government – the family, Benjamin Franklin
Marriage, or an union of the sexes, though it be in itself one of the smallest societies, is the original fountain whence the greatest and most extensive governments have derived their beings. – Benjamin Franklin
Liberty Letters comment. Just a reminder of the very foundation of government, and why it is the state has an interest in protecting marriage and family – that is, because the state sprang from thence, as its aid. It is ironic, therefore, and alarming as well, that in our day powerful political lobbies labor to employ the state to the overthrow of traditional marriage and the family. What and who then will the state uphold and represent but debauchery and the debauched; and to what purpose, but the overthrow of civilization as we have come to know it?
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