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.
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.