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 end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
--C.S. Lewis--
Compare the political fates of Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Barney Frank, Sandy Berger, John Murtha, Gerry Studds, Marion Barry, William Jefferson, and most recently Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad, to the fates of Trent Lott, Larry Craig, John Doolittle, and Tom Delay.
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