Looks OK. I figured it would only be a matter of time before the sentiments so far expressed privately would burst to the surface.
Won’t be the first, but will be the hundredth.
I figure we might as well get on what we will get only later. The sooner we start, the sooner it’s over. (Politically, of course. )
The opening lines of Claire Wolfe's book “101 Things To Do ‘Til The Revolution" immediately comes to my mind.
“America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”
The next thing that comes to my mind is Thomas Jefferson's observation “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
Perhaps as wise as Jefferson is this more recent observation Ronald Reagan shared. "I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts." This would ultimately seem to bring us back to Jefferson’s observation.
Here are several related quotations to give one pause.
"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." Edmund Burke, Irish orator, philosopher and politician (1729 - 1797)
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. Edmund Burke
“We can’t expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.” -Nikita Khrushchev
The real freedom of any individual can always be measured by the amount of responsibility, which he must assume for his own welfare and security. Robert Welch – Author
Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. Woodrow Wilson
Here are three related quotes from two different eras.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke in a letter to William Smith on Jan. 9, 1795
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” Albert Einstein
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Thomas Jefferson
More recently: “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” Albert Einstein
The root of all the other quotes is, "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus, Roman Senator and Historian (A.D. c.56 - c. 115), because it is the people’s first clue that tyranny is afoot.
That brings us back to where I started…“America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”
Me too.