PeteEyre.com | They replace the priest by a king, the king by an oligarchy, the oligarchs by a despot, the despot by an aristocracy, the aristocrats by a majority, the majority by a tyrant, the tyrant by oligarchs, the oligarchs by aristocrats, the aristocrats by a king, the king by a parliament, the parliament by a dictator, the dictator by a king, the king by—there’s six thousand years of it, in every language.
Rose Wilder Lane’s The Discovery of Freedom: Man’s Struggle Against Authority [.pdf] – a book well-worthy of a blog post.
