"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government."
Dwight D. Eisenhower (general/president, 1890-1969)
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I always find such quotes by US presidents interesting even ironic, for most if not all contributed to the current Great Oppression and Grand Chaos in some small measure at least. However, statements like this one are no less true, no less noteworthy.
Are these examples moments of political conveniences, public appeasements? Perhaps or equally possible, these clarities exemplify moments of personal reflections upon logical recognitions. Much in the same way when Solomon who taxed and confiscated like any other despotic king yet wisely, rightly and ethically penned (Ec 3:13),"And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour."
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