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Liberty
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” — Thomas Jefferson
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
— John Adams
“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.”
— David Hume
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.”
— John F. Kennedy
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
– Albert Einstein
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John, did you choose this article BECAUSE of the comments in the preceding article or was it random?
Because it dovetails nicely…
They were sent to me by a regular reader, so take your guess
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960
I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research.
Albert Einstein
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy
‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter’.
Martin Luther King Jr.
More! More!
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. – Edmund Burke
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
~Oscar Wilde
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.
~Robert A. Heinlein