"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
History’s Long Road to Tyranny: Tocqueville and the End of Equality
Submitted by Michael Kleen on Fri, 2011-04-15 03:00
Recent decades had shown the spread of equality, but recent centuries showed that the West as a whole was driving toward the total centralization of political power in the hands of a unified state.
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