“Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be ‘governed’ without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct.”
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A brother-and-sister team of anti-Nazi activists were arrested on this date in 1943:
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“I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.”
—Jean Paul Sartre
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“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.” —Herbert Spencer
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Maybe your political beliefs have gone too far… when you start to think of citizens as children who must be mothered and managed.
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“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”
—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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“It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.”
—Walter Bagehot
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“The First Rule of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.”
—Alexander Cockburn
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The day the U.S. military draft ended:
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Elections matter, after all. In fact, these days they matter too much. In the wake of the 2008 election, writer Jerry Pournelle observed: “We have always known that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. It’s worse now, because capture of government is so much more important than it once was. There was a time when there was enough freedom that it hardly mattered which brand of crooks ran government. That has not been true for a long time — not during most of your lifetimes, and for much of mine — and it will probably never be true again.”
–Glenn Harlan Reynolds, USA Today
Then it won’t matter which gang of crooks in charge.