You're not black, white, yellow or brown. You're an American. - Bill Whittle

We are the party of big guns, fast cars, and hot women. If you can't sell freedom to the American people then you're in the wrong line of work.

It may not be factually true that Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but the saying has passed into common usage because the image has the ring of truth to it. Time and time again, the good and decent common people have manned the walls of the city, and have been ready to give their lives in its defense, only to discover too late that some silk-robed (expletive) has snuck out of the palace at midnight and thrown open the gates to the barbarians outside."

There is a word for people who are kept safe, fed, clothed, housed and sustained fully by others, and that word is SLAVES.