lost the genius of
independence, fit subjects
of cunning tyrants
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage, and you are preparing your own limbs to wear them.
Accustomed to trample on the rights of those around you, you have lost the genius of your own independence, and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises.
Abraham Lincoln in a speech at Edwardsville, Sept. 11, 1858.
Watching the clown shop assemble its crew I think that those who follow and approve of the clown show are accustomed to trample on the rights of those around them , and have lost the genius of their own independence, and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises.
I feel they have familiarized themselves with the chains of bondage, and are preparing their own limbs to wear them.
Why am I reminded again of Mr. Lenin’s famous, “When it comes time to hang the western world … a capitalist will sell me the rope.”
Mr. Lincoln pointed this out in 1856.
No cell phones.
No facebook.
No internet.
Through the long trail of history, it is us who have consistently perverse and goofy and open to those cunning tyrants coming down the road.
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