"AN ALMOST UNNATURAL vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old. It is the custom in passing romance and journalism to talk of men suffering under old tyrannies. But, as a fact, men have almost always suffered under new tyrannies; under tyrannies that had been public liberties hardly twenty years before."

G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, chapter 7, “The Eternal Revolution” (New York: John Lane Company, 1909), 213.