It is sometimes carelessly said, "Liberty comes from anarchy," but this is a very dangerous doctrine.

It would be nearer truth to say from anarchy inevitably comes tyranny.

Men receive a despot to quell a mob.

But when a people, determined and disciplined, resolve to have neither despotism nor anarchy but freedom, then they act in the light of the Natural Law.

It is well put in the doctrine of St.Thomas, as given by Turner in his _History of Philosophy_ (Chap.