"There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters." Daniel Webster

Friday, August 7, 2009

Quote of the Day: The Nature of Government

I made some changes to the blog, including adding at the top some remarks from H.L> Mencken that will serve as our first quote of the day:

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.

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