How does this apply to our situation today?\nAnd who first said it?
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I like the way you think....Ben Franklin was first...as far as applying to today..unwarranted wire taps for "national security" the politics of fear the pres and vp employed to win? the last election  AG says pres has right to order warrantless searches of property......Sorry all of that crap pisses me off!
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"If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible." --  Bernard Mannes Baruch\n\n\n"Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective." -  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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For me, the statement says that survival is a very noble cause, and we should support all those who protect our country, and do so in every way we can.\n\nBut survival and protection is not the same as destruction, and we shouldn't try to be the world's bully. I'm all for excellent defense, but let's keep the offense to a minimum.
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Roughly translated, it goes something like this (one of your words is a bit off, so I had to guess):\n\nBeware those men!  They will certainly drag us into a neighboring house and kill us there.  But in error, for Marcus having been upset by fear after he heard Sextus shouting, fell to the ground and lay in the inexorable dirt.\n\n"Hold on!" one of the robbers shouted.  "Where do you go, small one?  What is your name? Aren't you the son of a senator? Isn't your name Marcus Cornelius?"\n\nTo whom Marcus replied, "What do you want, accursed ones?  I have no money.  Do not beat me.  If you hurt me, my father will certainly punish you."\n\nBut the robber interrupted, "Be silent, boy.  You are our captive and (radibis? - we will not return) you to your father.  No one will be able to save you now.  For I will kill you myself."
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Thomas Jefferson is my political hero so it's not surprising that I agree wholeheartedly. Interestingly, one of Jefferson's contemporaries in Great Britain made a similar quotation which happens to be a personal favourite of mine. His name was Edmund Burke and this is what he said:\n\n"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."\n\nSee the similarity? Basically, the message is the same and it's particularly relevant today. If good men and women of conscience are unwilling to stand up and be counted, to speak out or to take action when necessary, then the villains win. Of course it's easier and safer to remain silent like sheep in the fold, but is the easy and safe way always best? I hardly think so. Sometimes you have to make a stand, take up a cause or vote with your feet. And some causes are quite literally worth fighting and dying for. If others who came before us hadn't thought so and demonstrated that belief at the cost of their own lives, where would we be now?
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Good one...\nNo offence just a suggestion....\nHow about  "The one who made us." instead of "The one who made you."
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And so it goes....\n\nLet he who is without sin cast the first stone.......\n\n\nHmmmmm, who said that?
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A very decent and logical question. To answer it, I'd have to say, no, there's no one out there. We need to fix our own problems instead of waiting for a diety to fix them, or to say it's all in his plan.
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That was society at the time. I'm an atheist (just for your info) and I think the Bible has a lot of good advice in it (don't kill etc), but you have to take it as something that was written a very long time ago. Your quotes are cultural, and of the time, more than religious, word-of-God and so on. That doesn't mean they're right though.
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Quote; "Anyone who starves themselves over any cause is stupid. Can't change things when you are dead, so yes the death was in vain. Even a gator could figure that out."\n\nGator has obviously never heard of Bobby Sands or the other 9 Irish Hunger strikers of 1981. As a result of their sacrifice, Bobby Sands was elected to Parliament while still on hunger strike, hundreds of people joined the IRA and the Good Friday Agreement was signed. Among other things, the Good Friday Agreement forced the brits to share governmental power with Irish Republicans AND forced the brits to release ALL IRA prisoners from their prisons! Don't tell me they died in vain. They were locked away in a prison, with no weapons, yet managed to change the whole course of Irish history.\n  Sadly, I must admit that I know nothing of Subhas Srivastava. But he has got people talking. And I will read up on him and his cause. So be sure, he did not die in vain.
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who stated that quote, hopefully it was from "fake news source". i couldn't imagine anyone seriously saying that. maybe the fact that the Iraqi government isn't doing anything yet could apply? that's about it.
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You are confusing ME with this question.  Be more explicit.\n\nNo to the second question.  Where did you ever hear that?
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You are either with us are against us! you dont believe in that do you? thats the same line we've fallen for for centuries. stalin, mao, cheng, wassalib, hitler, poipot, melosovic, il & leone have all used that to commit terrible things while in power. heres another slogan for ya, 'those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit attrocities'.
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Nothing to do with that question. I would guess they are either following you or following the person who gave the first answer to get that commentary in. Note that part was in caps. That would indicate someone proably said it. After all teh comments section is too small.
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Interesting, but my translation says "God takes his stand in his own congregation".  (New American Standard).  We would need to discuss it with an expert in ancient hebrew to form an informed opinion, so take it easy.
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looks at it.\n\n\nBut I'm finding that there are confilcts over who said it originally.  I have found both Emerson and Thoreau as being quoted.
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In the Bible it says "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another:  and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."  \n\nsorry, I misquoted the first time