"RESOLVE TO SERVE NO MORE, and YOU ARE at once FREED. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."
Étienne de La Boétie (1530-1563)
Wonderful quote by an insightful young man while attending university. Taken from his essay Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, posthumously and clandestinely published in 1577, perhaps the original Pelican Brief if you will.
Free copy of La Boétie's essay, courtesy of Mises Institute...
https://mises.org/library/politics-obedience-discourse-voluntary-servitude
Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
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