And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
All true, but it works well for politicians to promise other people's money to fix a dependency problem by creating more dependency (in exchange for contributions and a vote).
"bread and circuses, boys! thats what the prols want. how can you ask the prols to chose between guns and butter if they don't know what butter is?" a little quote from Andropov to Khrushchev right before he stuck the knife in
All true, but it works well for politicians to promise other people's money to fix a dependency problem by creating more dependency (in exchange for contributions and a vote).
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