Solon Quote

"If through your vices you afflicted are,
Lay not the blame of your distress on God;
You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards,
So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod."

by:	Solon (c.638 BC-558 BC) Athenian statesman, lawmaker, Lyric poet, renowned as a founding father of the Athenian polis, one of the Seven Sages of Greece
Date:	550 B.C.
Source:	Diogenes Laërtius (trans. C. D. Yonge) The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1853), "Solon", sect. 5, p. 25.
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Categories:	God, Government, Oppression, Proverbs, Responsibility, Slavery, Vice
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The people should not complain for letting their Government become their rulers? Au Contraire! The people must wrest their liberties and freedoms from the hands of their government....again.  -- J Carlton, Calgary
J got it right.  -- jim k, Austin, Tx
We should learn from history.  -- Eloisa, Yuma,AZ
The U.S.A. is a prime example of this quote. Because the founders left the citizenry too few checks and balances toward the establishment of THEIR Government, we now have a Government run amuck.  -- James Young, Reno, Nevada

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