“Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.”
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
