Driving through the New Mexico desert into Albequerque, we saw a giant gleaming white road sign with black text which read only COPS ARE EVERYWHERE. I think they’re trying to scare us. This is the paragraph I was reading at moment we noticed the sign:
Some nations have freedom in the blood and are ready to face the greatest perils and hardships in its defense. It is not for what it offers on the material plane that they love it; they regard freedom itself as something so precious, so needful to their happiness that no other boon could compensate for its loss, and its enjoyment consoles them even in their darkest hours. Other nations, once they have grown prosperous, lose interest in freedom and let it be snatched from them without lifting a hand to defend it, lest they should endanger thus the comforts that, in fact, they owe to it alone…
Alexis De Tocqueville — The Old Regime And The French Revolution — 1856
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