I've always admired the Greeks more than the Romans.
I've always admired the Greeks more than the Romans.
The reason we need democracy is that the wolves are always in the minority. But they are always hungry and they are never satisfied. And they are the ones that always run in packs and have big teeth.
"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his
fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose
fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily
the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise
of his industry and the fruits acquired by it"
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816
Noble words, from a man who bought, sold and bred slaves. Its easy to talk about freedom when you own the farm, and everybody on it.
But I guess, to be fair to him, he did occasionally feel terrible about it.