Quote of the day

[singlebilingual]

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without

Comments

[matrixmann]

Even though this quote is probably a little older (and the entry citing it also a couple of years old), I think it is quite true