Originally posted on The Oil for Your Lamp:
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon…

Originally posted on The Oil for Your Lamp:
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” — Voltaire What did Voltaire mean by this?  He meant to warn us against demagogues and populists.  Charismatic liars such as these are capable of convincing you to believe things that you know to be…