The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law

To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being, he has failed to realize his own life’s meaning

Huckleberry was cordially hated and dreaded by all the mothers of the town because he was idle, and lawless, and lawless, and bad – and because all their children admired him so, and delighted in his forbidden society, and wished they dared to be like him.

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term ‘conservatism’ can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country’s future.