Does anybody know what Ben here--> "The day you passed that act," What act? THAT IS MOST IMPORTANT?

Oh, I forgot to vote on this. It is one of the best quotes of all time. --I think.

An example of this marvelous quote is the feeble attempt at legislating the proper attitude people should have toward each other as in part 2 of the Civil Rights Act. Part 1 is removing of Jim Crow laws; something that was the fault of the government to begin with. Part 2 however, forces people to admit all minorities --gays for example-- to whatever service their firm provides. This is the only behavior they can control with police. That superficial solution, however, allows the more important source of prejudice to thrive: mutual hate. Being rude, or just providing bad service to the minority allows the hated to have reason to hate back.

" and obey them until we have succeeded,
or shall we transgress them at once?" This isn't the dilemma it sounds like. Do both of course. The important point is to NOT "be content to obey them". How society removes unjust laws is a matter of prudence. Even how quickly the law is removed should be chosen to minimize suffering. Those of us who prefer spontaneous order and cultural origins of law must recognize that removing of legislature-invented laws can be part of spontaneous order as long as there is some way to undo laws as fast as those righteous bastards impose them.

Hey Mike....
Watch me improve the shit out of this aphorism....
Everyone thinks they dont need a cop to tell them what to do. But only an anarchists thinks that no one else does either. <--Walter Clark

That case (teacher tenure) was decided wrongly. A teacher is not a scholar. They have no higher rank than a gardener. And like a gardener, they provide a service to a customer. Customers determine the content of the service just as much as the provider. The word scholarship is nebulous enough to intimidate the parent into relinquishing control of how a child should be raised; you hand the future to whoever decides what scholarship is. Is it what the state says? The union? Or should it be more like the way art and fashion are decided; an intricate and beautiful dance of customer and provider where both are equally free in finding a different partner?

What do you mean Mike Norwalk? a plane dropped bldg # 7 ? Walt

This was in response to Rousseau's much more famous aphorism that we are born free and everywhere in chains. But, that doesn't help. I still don't get it. Perhaps a check of Faguet's credentials in Wikipedia would help. Hmmm. A literary critic, and professor of poetry. That's like having a PhD in English Literature today. Good for a job at McDonald's. But, you know the Rousseau quote is kind of vacuous too. Let's check him out. OHHH YEAAA. Rousseau is the guy that inspired equality over freedom of the French Revolution. Remember the three versions of the Social Contract? Locke, Hobbs and Rousseau? His is the socialist version; "General Will" and so on; the purpose of life of your typical Democrat.

I think this is a liberal message; one of the few intellectual ones. "Remissness of action" is negligence on the part of those less than average in performance. Whereas "... go wrong by excess of energy" is a condemnation of those with above average performance. That sounds like he's saying when we are free, we are unequal and that's bad. See why this is a liberal sentiment? Contrast that with "Free men are not equal and equal men are not free."