Yes by all means let's attack the messenger because hurling invective at the message is so thought-provoking. I agree with Ted they are pathetic!
Liberalism has to be a self-centered mental disorder to be able to live under the blanket of freedom and safety that philosophies like this provide well berating and hating them.

Common sense for thinking people that have any grasp of history and the struggle for freedom against tyranny and oppression.
But no doubt over the heads of most liberals unable to get the truth of this quote.

Sounds self-evident to me.

You just need to hear Joe Biden to know that is true.

These days it is truer than ever, a constitutional amendment needs to be passed that any bill has to pass constitutional justification and state its jurisdiction right in the bill and the overuse out of historical context general welfare clause will not be accepted.

Valerie Jarrett backed by George Soros foreign influence enough?

Yup, we're screwed! Reality 101.

Are we talking about classic liberalism or twisted modern liberalism? Big difference.

Oh, so that's how it's done.

I swear a slight variation on this quote could be attributable to Barack Obama and the progressive statists as their ideologies are definitely in sync.

So true! There is no substitute for life experience with all due respect to the younger commenters here, just wait and see.

Ah yes the politics of group identity, the foundation of statist progressivism.

The Wafflers strike again! There are plenty of countries that are in line with your beliefs why don't you go live there for a while and stop screwing up our country for those of us to actually believe in liberty and freedom and the rule of law under natural law.

An opposition party? It would be great if we actually had one.

Achievers get this, but I think non-achievers might have a problem with understanding it.

At one time I was a confident liberal, until one day a person challenged me with facts reason and logic which started me down the road to seeking the truth of conservatism. Thank God I found my way into the light! Questioning one's belief is hard for some people call it cognitive dissidence or just plain stubbornness.

Moving forward Anonymous? Not sure what forward is for you but I think we are definitely moving in the wrong direction.

I think I like "all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" better.

Journalism today for the most part is nothing more than just self deluded political partisan hacks spinning news to jive with their political and social philosophy and the TRUTH be damned.
They are cheerleaders and defenders for a political party.

A quote so true and logical through a historical context but yet spawn so much befuddlement for some people as to offer such ludicrous assertions regarding its meaning here.

Is it cognitive dissidence or what?

Perhaps the folks here who advocate socialism should consider living under it in another country first before they advocate changing our systems to a socialist/communist system.

Warren, I think you nailed it!
However there is another element to the basic human nature equation that being the spiritual one that is sometimes overlooked in these types of discussions, we have a spiritual adversary who desires not only our physical bondage but spiritual as well.

I have never considered something like this (Obama presidency) to be possible in America and the sacrifices in bloodshed of previous generations were for nothing.

Does the socialist left truly long for the days before the Magna Carta when the Kings word was law that was never binding on him but only on his subjects?

How far does it have to go before millions march on Washington DC with the torches and pitchforks come out demanding redress of their grievances to put a stop to the lawlessness and incorruption?

GOD HELP UP! We are a nation that has slipped its moorings and broken its rudder, thrown its charts and compass overboard and thrown itself to the mercy of fickle hysterically ignorant pathetically dumbed down pop-culture currents.

Mr. Smith, there is no need to reinvent the wheel every generation.

Even though we live under inalienable rights given by God containing those rights and our liberty comes with duty and responsibility. I would say the first responsibility is to educate oneself concerning our founding principles and their origins and the duty is to see that those principles are maintained and passed down to the next generation and the importance of passing it down through their generations.

Without the first responsibility to educate ourselves on these principles the crack of the foundation has already occurred in each successive generation adds to that crack until we end in despotism again.