Unlike the cruel Leonidas, who demanded that you stand, I require only that you kneel. — 300

Freedom is difficult.  To stand up, take care of yourself and your family, to go to the job, and to protect all of this, takes more than you have some days.  How easy would it be to let it all go, to rest?  The trap of comfort and ease holds bait that is so sweet and fragrant, but it hides the poisons of stagnation and decline.  No true free man or woman will accept charity when they can provide for themselves.  Any true free man or woman will spit in the eye of someone who tells them to kneel before the will of a tyrant.