“Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.”
William Graham Sumner, “The Forgotten Man” (1883)
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
Voltaire, “Sixième discours: sur la nature de l’homme,” Sept Discours en Vers sur l’Homme (1738)
“If I want to be free from any other man’s dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.”
William Graham Sumner, “The Forgotten Man” (1883)
“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
Voltaire, Brutus, Act II, scene I (1730).
Something happened in Grand Rapids. There was a political campaign, complete with contribution reports; a complaint was filed; a determination was made and fines were even imposed — which have been called “kind of steep.” But what comes shining through is not the hooray-for-us message, “the system works.” Far from it. Read about it on Townhall. Come back here for more information:
It’s a rap:
“Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.”
“To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.”
Emma Goldman, My Disillusionment in Russia 1925.
“Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1973.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1973
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