First Principles: Governments Do Not Make Ideals, But Ideals Make Governments

“Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course, the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source by their very nature is in the people. … It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.” -President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)

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