{"id":406,"date":"2020-06-06T17:39:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T17:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2020-06-06T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T18:34:13","slug":"a-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/a-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"Here There Be Dragons &#8211; A Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A quote I have had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salemthesoldier.us\/Salems_USGovernment_Page.html\" target=\"_blank\">on my web site<\/a> since the Clinton years. Appropriate again \u00a0for our times. \u00a0From an old member at FreeRepublic.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>&#8220;On the path towards the Rule of Men and away from the tranquility of the Rule of Law, the historical trap has been for good citizens to call upon stricter and stricter government, followed by stronger and stronger government, until government itself becomes so overbearing that it becomes more of the enemy than the anarchy from the Rule of Men.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>As the olde maps used to cite: &#8216;Here there be dragons.'&#8221; ~ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/~southack\/\" target=\"_blank\">Southack<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-407\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-407\" src=\"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2fnlb6-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Here There Be Dragons...\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2fnlb6-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2fnlb6-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2fnlb6-1024x698.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2fnlb6.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here There Be Dragons&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=50&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=prime_up&amp;banner=06EQAYE0G78N7R1H1MG2&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=0a74c892377c585b2f40872ce7818f37&amp;t=salemsmailbox&amp;tracking_id=salemsmailbox\" width=\"720\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A quote I have had on my web site since the Clinton years. Appropriate again \u00a0for our times. \u00a0From an old member at FreeRepublic.com: &#8220;On the path towards the Rule of Men and away from the tranquility of the Rule of Law, the historical trap has been for good citizens to call upon stricter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/a-quote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Here There Be Dragons &#8211; A Quote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemthesoldier.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}