“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.” Robert A. Heinlein
From America’s Third President:
“Not in our day, but at no distant one, we may shake a rod over the heads of all, which may make the stoutest of them tremble. But I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power, the greater it will be,”
H/T: Sully
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Thanks you, I enjoyed the link to Harper’s with the photocopy of his letter to Lewis and Clark.
Comment by T F Stern — March 12, 2008 @ 10:05 am