The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs. There may be a worse case.
All governments are more or less combinations against the people. .
Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty. It never did, and it never will. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Mikhail Bakunin Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.