"If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution"--Lincoln
Patriot Act, anyone?
Oh, I'm sorry...I can't check out that book. Big Brother is watching.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"--Benjamin Franklin
"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither"--Thomas Jefferson
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing" --Eisenhower (you know, that WWII veteran who became a Republican president)
Just some food for thought.





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