Here’s a great quote from the Spanish politician and philosopher Jose Ortega Y Gasset:
?Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.?
Those who advocate limited, efficient, open, and constitutional government are trying to do precisely that: to minimize the role of force in human affairs. One should never apologize for pursuing this cause, the cause of civilization itself, doggedly and enthusiastically. Because, you know, extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. . .
