Quote of the day

"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair." --H. L. Mencken

Plato knew a true, complete Libertarian bent can't work

"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."


But that's my take on him and this quote.


The flip side to this is that there can, in fact, be too much law and/or too much government, certainly:

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.