Food for thought

[Patriot]

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it.

Frederic Bastiat


There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.

Edmund Burke