Dec 14, 2013
Freedom untethered from moral truth will eventually become freedom's worst enemy. If there's only your truth and my truth and neither one of us acknowledges a transcendent referee -- the truth -- by which to settle our disagreements, then one of two things is going to happen: you're going to impose your power on me, or I'm going to impose my power on you. Persuasion, which is the life blood of democratic politics, gives way to coercion, which is an acid eating away at democratic institutions and commitments.
George Weigel, Letters to a Young Catholic, 220.