"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
Liberty: A Nation of Aliens
"The experience of liberty does not give us a feeling of a common bond, aside from basic respect for political boundaries of individuals. Moreover, we wouldn't feel any sort of 'belongingness.' That was left behind in childhood, in the exceptional experience of being a child in a family group ? and it ended (or should have) when we reached an age of maturity (if we ever did). Instead, under liberty, and with liberation, we have a feeling of not having to belong ? to any one or any group." By the late Richard Rieben.
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