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It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a
prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man
is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once
the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.
-- John Philpot Curran: Speech upon the Right of Election (1790)
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
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"A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free
men to
resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within. Americans need to be
very careful to not surrender liberty for the sake of security; for in so
doing both are lost."
- Talk-show host Chuck Baldwin, "Chuck Wagon," 9/25/01
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Tale of Two Billionaires
"Two men, both billionaires. One develops relatively cheap software
and
gives hundreds of millions of dollars to charity. The other sponsors
terrorism. That being the case, why is it that the US government has spent
more money chasing down Bill Gates over the past ten years than Osama bin
Laden?"
- GOP N&V reader William Conklin
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