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orichalcum at 11:26pm on 06/11/2004
orichalcum at 11:26pm on 06/11/2004Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. --Abraham Lincoln
I think that one really sums it all up, except that I feel like the "people" then set my house on fire trying to put out their behinds.
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
Benjamin Franklin
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
Gunther Grass
Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do. --Rudolf Giuliani, perhaps our next A.G.?
I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education. --Thomas Jefferson
I think that one really sums it all up, except that I feel like the "people" then set my house on fire trying to put out their behinds.
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
Benjamin Franklin
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
Gunther Grass
Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do. --Rudolf Giuliani, perhaps our next A.G.?
I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education. --Thomas Jefferson
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