{"id":8942,"date":"2015-10-27T16:52:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T20:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=8942"},"modified":"2024-09-11T20:59:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T00:59:28","slug":"democracy-liberty-leviathan-epigrams-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/27\/democracy-liberty-leviathan-epigrams-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy, Liberty, Leviathan Epigrams \/Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/JPB-10-book-covers-web-version.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6509\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/JPB-10-book-covers-web-version-800x488.jpg\" alt=\"JPB-10-book-covers-web-version\" width=\"500\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/JPB-10-book-covers-web-version-800x488.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/JPB-10-book-covers-web-version-150x91.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/JPB-10-book-covers-web-version.jpg 826w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Whittling today on some epigrams from my books &#8211; here are some new, improved, tighter versions [earlier versions of these lines are<a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/Bovard%20Epigrams%20page.htm\"> here<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>** These epigrams are works-in-progress.\u00a0 I welcome critical feedback &#8211; if you like or loathe any of these lines, let me know!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Without a realistic concept of government, political philosophy is only a highbrow road to serfdom.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/659107545148182529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The more power politicians seize, the worse the odds become for &quot;free and fair elections.&quot; Leviathan trumps voters almost every time.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/659099204493692928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Being crowned president by the Electoral College does not entitle one American to ravage the lives and liberties of all other Americans.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/659095810735525890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Attention Deficit Democracy lulls citizens into thinking that they have nothing to fear from all the rulers\u2019 sticks and shackles.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/659064454362042368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democracy is a form of government, not a mode of salvation. It is not a penicillin that cures all politically transmitted diseases.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/659049478087929856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As long as rulers are above the law, citizens have the same freedom slaves had on days when their masters chose not to beat them.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/659047680681885696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship where voters choose who gets to trample the law &amp; Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/659044964861612033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Political lies are like snake bites: unless the poison is speedily removed, remedial efforts are of interest only to historians &amp; coroners.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/659037701820305409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Every government subsidy creates a power vacuum that will eventually be filled by political or bureaucratic ambition.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/659108837895634944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whittling today on some epigrams from my books &#8211; here are some new, improved, tighter versions [earlier versions of these lines are here] ** These epigrams are works-in-progress.\u00a0 I welcome critical feedback &#8211; if you like or loathe any of these lines, let me know! 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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8942"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20527,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions\/20527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}