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TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2025
Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?—in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
 
– Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” [1849]

HORNBERGER'S BLOG
April 29, 2025
A Flock of Frightened and Dependent Sheep
Isn’t it ironic that Americans have the most powerful government in history and, at the same time, have the most frightened citizenry in the world? That’s not a coincidence. Big government produces little people, and a powerful, omnipotent government produces a weak nation. Americans are scared to death of everything. They are scared of Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, communists, terrorists, drug ...
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