From Plato and Aristotle forward the only significant idea in human history has been about freedom versus government. As freedom from liberal govt has advanced mankind's condition has advanced.
Liberalism stands squarely opposed to mankind's advancement but liberals simply lack the IQ to understand it.
Plato and Aristotle understood the vital roll of government, as did our founding fathers, who BTW, CREATED a GOVERNMENT. Not a corporation or private entity. You right wing turds somehow believe anarchy is Utopia.
Move to Somalia and send us updates, IF you survive.
"The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. Modern times have the signal advantage, too, of having discovered the only device by which these rights can be secured, to wit: government by the people, acting not in person, but by representatives chosen by themselves, that is to say, by every man of ripe years and sane mind, who contributes either by his purse or person to the support of his country." --Thomas Jefferson to A. Coray, 1823. ME 15:482
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson
"The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. But in all that people can individually do as well for themselves, Government ought not to interfere."
President Abraham Lincoln
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
