Richard Weaver Quote

In the same way, we have to inform the multitude that restoration comes at a price. Suppose we give them an intimation of the cost through a series of questions. Are you ready, we must ask them, to grant that the law of reward is inflexible and that one cannot, by cunning or through complaints, obtain more than he puts in? Are you prepared to see that comfort may be a seduction and that the fetish of material prosperity will have to be pushed aside in favor of some sterner ideal? Do you see the necessity of accepting duties before you begin to talk of freedoms?

Richard Weaver

In the same way, we have to inform the multitude that restoration comes at a price. Suppose we give them an intimation of the cost through a series of questions. Are you ready, we must ask them, to grant that the law of reward is inflexible and that one cannot, by cunning or through complaints, obtain more than he puts in? Are you prepared to see that comfort may be a seduction and that the fetish of material prosperity will have to be pushed aside in favor of some sterner ideal? Do you see the necessity of accepting duties before you begin to talk of freedoms?

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Richard Weaver may refer to:

Richard Weaver (MP) (1575–1642), English politician
Richard Weaver (American politician) (1827–1906), English-born Wisconsin politician
Richard Weaver (entomologist) (1783–1857), British entomologist
Richard C. Weaver, better known as the "Handshake Man"
Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963), American scholar