"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
The Limitations Of Freedom
"The week leading up to Independence Day made it glaringly obvious to me that few people today really know what freedom means. Sure, they know and use the word, but it is something like the word relativity to them: Something they have heard of and that they might think they understand because of how others have explained it to them."
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The editors of the Prescott (Arizona) Daily Courier once described freedom as "the right to do whatever you want as long as it's legal." That mentality is tragically common among Americans these days.
Freedom is the right to do whatever you want as long as it's lawful.
Natural liberty, consists in the power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, except from the laws of nature. It is a state of exemption from the control of others, and from positive laws and the institutions of social life. ~ Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language
This liberty is abridged by submitting one's self to the dominion of a man-made government.