Rand Paul Echoes Os Guinness: Liberty Requires Virtue

By Published on November 8, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul says that liberty and freedom requires virtue and moral underpinnings, echoing Christian social critic and author Os Guinness.

Paul appeared on John Stossel’s programΒ on Fox Business Friday to talk about free-markets, the presidential race, and to promote his new book Our President’s & Their Prayers: Proclamations of Faith by America’s Leaders.

“The one thing interesting about liberty is I want to leave them alone, I want you to be free to do just about anything if you don’t hurt anyone,” says Paul.

“But I think society and civilization needs structure. There is a theologian by the name of Os Guinness I like who says ‘that liberty requires restraint, but the only restraint consistent with liberty is self-restraint.’

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