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Monday, December 19, 2005
The Wheel of History
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
~ James Madison
“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.”
~ Julius Caesar
Posted by fm on December 19, 2005 at 12:26 AM