"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 Effects of War on Liberty
Submitted by Mike Powers on Sun, 2008-05-25 16:00
?Not only is war a violation of the rights of the individual ? which we must always oppose on moral grounds ? but on balance, it has failed to produce security, much less peace and liberty, for most people it has touched.? By Anthony Gregory.
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