…two essential conditions which are attached to all true rights; first, the capacity of individuals to claim and exercise the alleged right; second, the correspondent duty that is married to every right. If a man has a right to marry, some woman must have the duty of marrying him; if a man has a right [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘politics’
November 26, 2009
Political Apathy
Why have I cared so little about politics until the last presidential election. And now that I care, why do I feel that I have so little say about what happens? The questions, when posed side by side, seem to yield the obvious that I should have cared all along if state and local governments [...]
April 5, 2009
Despotism Defined
A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.
G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
