Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. Thomas Paine, from The American Crisis (No. 4), 1777.
We're at the exhaustion stage now.
Paine's role often overlooked if not forgotten in American political life.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Col. Edward Carrington, 1788.
I hadn't noticed.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. James Madison, Virginia Convention, 1788.
Isn't this precisely what's happened?
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