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Morality matters: if America continues to shed the values of her Judeo-Christian heritage, she will surely follow ancient Rome into bondage. Freedom cannot long coexist with moral depravity.(Morality)(Cover Story)
The history of ancient Rome is the classic example of the descent from virtue into corruption, from the moral restraint of republic to the intemperance of empire. Many Roman historians and commentators living in the early decades of imperial decadence--Cicero, Suetonius, Tacitus, Juvenal and others--placed great emphasis on the loss of virtue, both among citizens and rulers, as a major cause of Rome's decline. "How few were left who had seen the republic," lamented Tacitus of the early years of the empire. "The state had been revolutionized, and there was not a vestige left of the old sound morality."
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