Friday, April 4, 2014

The price of liberty......................

If there is one fact we can really prove, from the history that we really know, it is that despotism can be a development,  often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic.  A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy.  As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty;  and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.
-Gilbert Keith Chesterton,  The Everlasting Man

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