QOTD For Sunday
Since we missed Friday, and apropos of Katy’s comments on the “Stimulus Package”…
It is useless for the few remaining followers of Herbert Spencer to discuss whether the English, in entering Socialism, will sell themselves into slavery. They are already in the slavery: but they have not sold themselves into it. For they have not got any money for it, nor even the promise of any. It is vain for Individualist orators to adjure the people not to lose their birthright for a mess of pottage. Their birthright is lost; it is the mess of pottage that cannot be found. It is almost the only kind of mess that we have not managed to produce.
- G.K. Chesterton, The Intrusions of Officialdom
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