"Governments naturally qualify the word freedom, and when they suspect that it means that people wish to be free of them they exercise their lawful freedom to defend themselves"
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A great quote from an odd but fascinating book I'm reading called "The Highland Clearances" by John Brebble. A great book that tells the story of how the Scottish Highlands, once full of communities, life and culture, became barren due to the self-interested ruling class at the time who abandoned their clansmen and drove them, often with violence, from the land.