"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest."
Like surveying the (equally silly) "spiritual but not religious" nation he founded, I never know whether to laugh or cry after reading Thomas Jefferson, seeing how he grasped another man's freedom so firmly.
"We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go."
Is it any wonder "I don't care" is construed as a winning argument, today, in the country he birthed?
The country whose citizenry still can't accept "I didn't do anything" as enough to muster a defense, against even internal tyranny, and - still - willingly forces it's citizens to die in it's streets as a result of it?
Questions:
What or who made the wolf "the wolf" back then?
What or who makes the wolf "the wolf" now?
Who was "the wolf" really?
And who was, always, really "the wolf"?
And what is another's freedom, really - to someone lying to himself - but an instrument, invitation (and occasional obstacle) to cultism?
"What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty and the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose."
Yeah, it's hilarious how many, even today, somehow miss that,...
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