Quote of the Day - [4]

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Ffranklin

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin

BrightBlessings said:

"Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning -- not simply believing -- has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it."
—Gilles d'Aymery

Layback Bear said:

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Ffranklin...

Pity the U.S. doesn't get it. The terrorists have won.

Most of us get it. The government is slow to understand.
Or maybe they like the extra power they have now.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
~Oscar Wilde

A Guy

Layback Bear said:

Most of us get it. The government is slow to understand.
Or maybe they like the extra power they have now.

Surprisingly, most people I know have been deluded into thinking the government is protecting us. And yes, the government likes...no...loves the extra power.

A Guy

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
(don't remember who said it)

Britton30 said:

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
(don't remember who said it)

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
Lord Acton-1834-1902

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
~Henry Adams

A Guy