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The Moral Imperative |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--AN AGENDA FOR THE NEW ADMINISTRATION |
| Author: Robert Royal |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,058 Words, 12,585 Characters |
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In ancient Rome, when a victorious general celebrated in a triumphal procession, a priest rode in the chariot with him, whispering in his ear, "Remember, you are not god!"
Human nature has not, at last report, changed much in the past two thousand years. Bill Clinton would be well served if people around him on his triumphal trip from Little Rock to the District of Columbia performed the essential and timeless function of reminding him about the dangers of hubris in the White House.
Clinton let power go to his head in his first term as governor of Arkansas, trying to impose elite liberal goals on an unwilling populace. The Arkansas voters responded by immediately returning him to private life for a while. He seems to have learned a lesson from that defeat. But the temptations, b...
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...ear constraints of the Constitution or Scriptures, these two foundational texts of our American experiment cannot be subjected to redefinition or to political passions without peril to liberty, order and true civic amity. Both texts continue to whisper in the ear of even those who have ascended to the most powerful political position on earth the useful lesson, "Remember, you are not a god!"
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