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June 26, 2012
"Americans, who tend toward the anarchic, have a wise fondness for rebellions"
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and Americans, more than any people in history, should be quick to see and decryabuses of power or encroachments of the state beyond the strict limits of the Constitution, and should be quick, even reckless, to resort to mutiny and bloodshed against our public servants lest they forget who is master here. It were better to fight a useless war in the name of liberty than to slumber like Gulliver and awake to find ourselves tied down by the countless threads of the patient Lilliputians, unable despite any strength to stir. Those who say we must avoid such war at all cost, even at the cost of our liberty, in effect say it is better to live as a slave than die as a free man. -- Anarchy and Tyranny | John C. Wright's Journal
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 26, 2012 3:20 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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One must separate the wheat from the tares.
Posted by: Casca at June 26, 2012 5:58 PM
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty..."
...and the price of eternal vigilance is, sadly, boredom.
Bill,
Yyou seem to speak as a socialist. What would you know of wussies (the preferred spelling), except perhaps to be one? Do the French now speak German? Do the English have a North American subject? Have the Iraqis the chance to determine their own fate, for good or bad?
Watch whom you call wussy, punk.
Posted by: leelu at June 26, 2012 7:08 PM
If you won't fight for what you believe, then you are worthless to any society.
Posted by: GaGator at June 26, 2012 7:23 PM
The Icelanders are the only ones who have gotten it right so far.
Posted by: rickl at June 26, 2012 8:08 PM
Actually, they may have gotten it right in Singapore, which was given a more complicated set of challenges than Iceland.
Posted by: james wilson at June 27, 2012 12:19 PM
Americans do not yet understand how much their ruling class hates them. Nor do they understand how deep the web of corruption and lies that keeps the regime in place runs.
Posted by: Fat Man at June 27, 2012 1:43 PM