Throughout history: Benefits require servitude; Servitude always results in tyranny.

Throughout history: benefits require servitude. Servitude always results in tyranny by the ambitious.

Lincoln warned you about chains of bondage. Abraham Lincoln, September 11, 1858:

“Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trampling on the rights of others you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.”

“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he breaks, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime.”
— John Philpot Curran, July 10, 1790

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 19, 1787.

Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Law was a four volume law textbook that was very popular in the British Colonies of the 1770s. Near the beginning of the seven page introduction to law:
“a state of dependence will inevitably oblige the inferior to take the will of him, on whom he depends, as the rule of his conduct”

2150 Historian Polybius wrote a 40 Volume History Encyclopedia, The Histories Of the Roman Republic 220-146 BC, Book 6, section 9:

“But when a new generation arises and the democracy falls into the hands of the grandchildren of its founders, they have become so accustomed to freedom and equality that they no longer value them, and begin to aim at pre-eminence; and it is chiefly those of ample fortune who fall into this error. So when they begin to lust for power and cannot attain it through themselves or their own good qualities, they ruin their estates, tempting and corrupting the people in every possible way. And hence when by their foolish thirst for reputation they have created among the masses an appetite for gifts and the habit of receiving them, democracy in its turn is abolished and changes into a rule of force and violence. For the people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others, as soon as they find a leader who is enterprising but is excluded from the houses of office by his penury, institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch.

 

Perfect savages.

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