THE SUPERIORITY OF MONARCHY —“There is little doubt that the American Congress

THE SUPERIORITY OF MONARCHY

—“There is little doubt that the American Congress or the French Chambers have a power over their nations which would rouse the envy of 21 Louis XIV or a George III, were they alive today. Not only prohibition, but also the income tax declaration, selective service, obligatory schooling, the finger-printing of blameless citizens, premarital blood tests—none of these totalitarian measures would even the royal absolutism of the seventeenth century have dared to introduce.”— Kuehnelt-Leddihn

While partly the influence of technology more than democracy, there is no question that we were more free under the monarchies. But then, the desire of few men is to be free.

Rent seeking is preferable to production.