Seems to me that there are an awful lot of so-called "conservatives"
who are falling over themselves to clamp down on our freedoms as
well. The impulse towards authoritarianism is hardly the sole province
of left-wing types.
Regards,
Snidely
“Nature has left this tincture in the blood,
That all men would be tyrants if they could.”
—Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), The Kentish Petition: Addenda, L. 11.
Quoted in Burton Stevenson, The Home Book of Quotations, 9th Edition (NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1958), p. 2063, quote 9.