Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise

Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise

On Stewardship and the Future of Order

Power, Virtue, and the Restoration of Order (Class Series, Essay 10)

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Richard L. Johnson
Oct 19, 2025
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“The price of greatness is responsibility.” - Winston Churchill

Civilizations depend on their ruling classes. The question is never whether elites will exist, but what kind they will be. History records a cycle as old as power itself: a class rises through discipline and vision, grows rich through its own success, then forgets the moral obligations that …

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