No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.  — Pardot Kynes

My Take – As I read history, the point in which a free people begin the march to slavery is when they give up their freedoms to a single person who promises to fix their problems for them.  For Rome, it was Marius and Sulla.  For Italy and Germany, it was Mussolini and Hitler.  For Russia, it was Lenin and Stalin.  As for the United States, there have been many times in the past 100 years where a majority of the population has looked at the president and proclaimed that he is the one who will bring food to their tables, security to their streets, and success to their lives.  A free people can never look to someone else to provide for them.  We have to remember that the individual is solely responsible for his or her success, not society, not the government, and not the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  We need to go back to our roots of self-reliance and self-determination, or we condemn our progeny to slavery as surely as the Romans condemned theirs to serfdom.