THE relationship......................

     "My grandfather often reminded us that if we didn't work, we didn't eat, and that if we didn't plant, we couldn't harvest.  There is always a relationship between responsibilities and benefits.  In agrarian societies, that is more obvious.  As society become more complex and specialized, it is more difficult to discern.  But it is equally true.  If you continue to run up charges on your credit card, at some point you reach your credit limit.  If you continue to make withdrawals from your savings account, you eventually deplete your funds.   Likewise, if we continue to consume the benefits of a free society without replenishing or nourishing that society, we will eventually deplete that as well."

-Clarence Thomas, as excerpted from here