"When I consider the weakness, the folly, The pride, the vanity, the selfishness, the artifice, the low craft and meaning cunning, the want of principle, the avarice, the unbounded ambition, the unfeeling Cruelty of a majority of those who are allowed influence;
And on the other hand, the stupidity with which the more numerous multitude, not only become their Dupes, but even love to be taken in by their tricks: I feel a stronger disposition to weep at their destiny, than to laugh at their folly...What Servile Mimicks they are."
-John Adams, 11/15/1813
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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