Democracy is an everlasting reproach to politicks

 It would be an everlasting reproach to politicks, should such men overturn an establishment formed by the wisest laws, and supported by the ablest heads.

-- Joseph Addison

People who don't care are already slaves

 There is a kind of sluggish resignation, as well as poorness and degeneracy of spirit, in a state of slavery.

-- Joseph Addison

When liberty is gone

 When liberty is gone,

Life grows insipid, and has lost its relish.

-- Joseph Addison

The default position of liberalism is to blame obstruction by reactionaries for republican failure, not the revolutionary impulses of the autocrat

"The republicans made me seize power".

You know whose side they are on when people talk like this. Spengler long ago observed how liberalism is all about tyranny, but does anyone still read him?

"The dictatorship of the bourgeoisie is all that Liberalism sets out to be."

The voices opposed to the US Senate filibuster, are, to put it bluntly, not related to our founding.

"However high-minded":

Caesar would soon seize autocratic power, and Cato would commit suicide rather than live under Caesar’s rule. Goodman and Soni argue Cato’s obstructionism — however high-minded — was a contributing factor to the Roman Republic’s collapse. America’s Founding Fathers, however, idolized Cato. George Washington’s soldiers staged a play about Cato at Valley Forge.  Patrick Henry’s famous quote, “Give me liberty of give me death,” is derived from a line in that play.

Heroes never die

Thus am I doubly armed; my death and life,

My bane and antidote, are both before me:

This, in a moment, brings me to an end;

But that informs me I shall never die.

 

-- Joseph Addison

Why Critics Are Unpopular: They Don't Exaggerate Our Virtues

 

A critick is a man who, on all occasions, is more attentive to what is wanting than what is present.

 

 -- Joseph Addison

Justice is blind to every loyalty

 

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always therefore represented as blind.

-- Joseph Addison, from "Justice", contributed to The Guardian

Addison on criticism

 

A critick is a man who, on all occasions, is more attentive to what is wanting than what is present.

-- Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison on justice

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred,

and is always therefore represented as blind.

--  Joseph Addison