QotD - It's all about character Edition

Today's Quote of the Day is courtesy of Ken over at Popehat.

[S]ocieties that make rules like this one, encouraging its citizens to scamper mewling behind the skirts of the government when faced with the least offense, produce people with the character necessary to take them up on the offer. It is hard to imagine how a nation run by people of that character can endure — or at least, how it can endure as anyplace you'd want to live.

Yeah. Whatever happened to self-reliance and self-determination? There's a reason it's now referred to as the Formerly Great Britain.