And yet how busy are the "laws" and the "kings" these days! Of course, most of their interventions designed to make us and society "perfect" (according to their idea of "perfection") are perfectly illegitimate for the reason that Samuel Johnson gives in this quotation....
And yet there are those among us today who will not rest until every private care of the human heart has been socialized and/or politicized....
It really is most annoying.
To such a point that the "conservative movement" has drifted toward playing the game according to their parameters.
It really is most annoying.
Agreed. Check this out from the Guardian's Polly Toynbee, granddaughter of the famous historian and one of the most well known leftists in Britain. It was mentioned in Aussie Tim Blair's excellent and definitely worth reading Best Quotes of 2003:
Only the state can buy the things that make people happiest.
How could anyone possibly believe such a hilarious absurdity?