[tumblindice]

“We need to get government back under the chains of the Constitution.”

“Man is born free, but everywhere he is chains.”

Who said that? Rousseau? Or was it .... Karl Marx! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY

(Don’t mind me, Dead—I’m just fecklessly denigrating you.)

[Dead Corpse]

Rousseau. But the correct quote is "but he is everywhere in chains". This was not a lament that we needed more government, but a lament that our governments continue to enslave us.

""Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the spot of every wind. With such persons, gullability, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck." - Letter to James Smith, December 8, 1822"

You should know who wrote that one. If not, you have more reading to do...