October 29, 2019, 09:00 AM
rduckworA quite pertinent to today:
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. -H. L. MENCKEN
RMD
October 29, 2019, 09:08 AM
fpuhan"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."
"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
"Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."
All quotes above by Alexis de Tocqueville,