Whatsoever, for any cause,
Seeketh to take or give
Power above or beyond the Laws,
Suffer it not to live!
Holy State or Holy King –
Or Holy People’s Will –
Have no truck with the senseless thing.
Order the guns and kill!
– Rudyard Kipling, extract from “MacDonough’s Song”
Sent in by a certain fellow Illuminatus with the following excellent remarks:
Doubtless a lot of you at the Samizdata gang know Kipling and perhaps particularly “MacDonough’s Song”, a sort of ancient libertarian cyberpunk chant from the dawn of the 20th century. If not I’ve attached the entire text, which is entirely consistent with our philosophy.
Quite! Back in Samizdata’s paleolithic era, there was a run of Kipling quotes both here and on Natalie Solent‘s blog.
