[EternalVigilance]

I don't mean by the bill, I mean, looking at the nature of politics, what makes you think that this system is not gonna be tinkered and altered until it's as big a mess as what it replaced.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

[ancient_geezer]

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

I like this one better ;O)

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
-John Philpot Curran: Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790.

Fits so nicely with:

 

I discussed the importance of abolishing the income tax because of its tendency to form a habit of servility in the souls of a people that accepts it.

Servility of soul is bad not only in itself, it is also an open door through which will soon walk the abuses of ambitious government power.

Leaders who find themselves with governmental power over a servile people will be quick to conclude that such a people exist to serve them.

Alan Keyes 1999

[Principled]

...what makes you think that this system is not gonna be tinkered and altered until it's as big a mess as what it replaced.

Like a man with a terminal illness who is offered medicine but refuses the medicine because it may not work. Well, not taking the medicine sure isn't gonna help him. How stupid is that?