Carl Herman

hat tips to all the linked researchers. “ Constitutional governments and aristocracies are commonly overthrown owing to some deviation from justice…the rich, if the constitution gives them power, are apt to be insolent and avaricious… In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state , just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.”  ~ Aristotle, Politics, Book V . 350 B.C.E. (emphasis added) “In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”  ~   US Declaration of Independence , 1776. “In the beginning of a change, the pat...