Sublime

Governments are subject to the same laws of economics as anyone else. The only “security” they offer is the promise to take care of you with other people’s money.

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La démocratie, sans l’utile contrepoids d’un monarque, est sans mesure dans l’approbation comme dans improbation, conduit au bavardage parlementaire et à la vilaine catégorie des politiciens professionnels. Et puis, les peuples actuels ne se prêtent pas à la démocratie absolue, et je crois que, dans l’avenir, ils s’y prêteront de moins en moins. La

0 que o homem perde pelo contrato social é a liberdade natural e um direito ilimitado a tudo que o tenta e pode alcançar; o que ganha é a liberdade civil e a propriedade de tudo o que possui. Para que não haja engano em suas compensações, é necessário distinguir a liberdade natural, limitada pelas forças do indivíduo, da liberdade civil que é limit

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To yield to force is an act of necessity, not of will—at the most, an act of prudence. In what sense can it be a duty?

In Locke’s form of the doctrine, however, the government is a party to the contract, and can be justly resisted if it fails to fulfil its part of the bargain. Locke’s doctrine is, in essence, more or less democratic, but the democratic element is limited by the view (implied rather than expressed) that those who have no property are not to be recko