"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
All Sail And No Anchor
Submitted by Westernerd on Sat, 2011-07-23 03:00
Lord Macaulay's stunningly accurate 150-year old predictions about the dangers of the powers given to the federal government in the U.S. Constitution.
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Yup. he was right. The only solution for this horrible choice between the chaos of democracy and the tyranny of despotism is the elimination of coercive government.