Political tags---such as royalist, communist,
democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth---are
never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who
want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former
are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the
greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking
in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.
from: "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long" by
Robert Heinlein
