Sic Semper GOP

[kandrathe]

This is actually misleading.

I agree with your assessment. That statement was from a paragraph I extracted from various on-line encyclopedic histories. These days we've exchanged real chains, for the chains of government run systems where it is "society" that is responsible for our children, elderly, and infirm. The question comes up in my mind pretty often, "Am I free?" I can still answer, "Some what".

"Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains." — Alexis de Tocqueville