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To: Neocon who wrote (86577)8/26/2000 10:33:37 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 108807
 
"At first men were enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. Then he was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of the freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled.

But then he gave up all he had won, and fell lower than his savage beginning.

What brought it to pass? What disaster took their reason away from men? What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.""