“The first problem in life is to stay alive. The second problem is to stay free.

—“The first problem in life is to stay alive. The second problem is to stay free. The third problem is to stay productive, so that productivity will take care of you. In many societies, it’s a challenge just to solve the first problem, and the second two are luxuries. Many more societies are relatively safe, but victims of the second problem: they have predatory/weak criminal justice systems that engender little to no faith in the legitimacy of their government. If people feel their freedom can be taken away at any time for essentially no reason, why even worry about the third problem? For a society to thrive, all three problems of human life have to be protected by law: life, liberty, and the pursuit of prosperity.”— James Louis LaSalle

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