"...'Tis better to be alone than in bad company." -- George Washington
"When the people fear the government, that is Tyranny. When the government fears the people, that is Freedom." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in the matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as the last asylum." -- Samuel Adams
"Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech." -- Benjamin Franklin
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." -- Thomas Paine
"Don't fuck this up." -- Rahm Emanuel, Current White House Chief of Staff
What to do when the revolution is more successful than could have been imagined and the oppressor realizes his error and wants to live with you in the free land? What then? I have no quotes for that. It does not compute. But I feel the sincerity. That is a start.
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I googled your last paragraph to find you some quotes. Top of googles list was this very paragraph.
ReplyDeleteOh well.
I like Rahm's quote.