Something to ponder

[Coinneach]

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."

Anyone want to guess who first said that?

 

[Blackwater OPS]

I guess......Thomas Jefferson? What's your point?

 

[Coinneach]

My point is that some here would do well to heed these words, rather than sell their liberties for false promises of safety.

 

[Blackwater OPS]

In that case, see my tag line for, IMO, an even better quote.

 

[johnbt]

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be" - Voltaire

 

[Cuchulainn]

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." -- Thomas Jefferson

 

[Te Anau]

What's your point?

That was a little harsh.

 

[GoSlash27]

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

As long as we're in a fortune-cookie mood