[WindMinstrel]

don't forget

"Politics should be limited in scope to war, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class."

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys."

"Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us."

[laredo44]

"Politics should be limited in scope to war, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class."

A right and proper description of public exercise of power given that "occasional" be defined as something on the order of "Every hour on the half-hour">