Who said something like; "anyone thats willing to give up just a little liberty, doesn't deserve it at al...
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Benjamin Franklin:\n\n"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."\n\nIt's one of my all-time favorite quotes!\n\n.
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Not infantile. Human. Hey who said there was anything wrong with wanting what you can't have?
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"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to stand by and do nothing." - Edmund Burke
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your damned if you do and your damned if you dont.\n\n-Bart Simpson
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Memorable Quotes: I learned that when you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone, because you will have divine companionship and the support of good people. This same faith and cosmic companionship sustained me after my husband was assassinated, and gave me the strength to make my contribution to carrying forward his unfinished work. \n"I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation." \n\n"Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people." \n\n"Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul."\n\n"The value of life in our cities has become as cheap as the price of a gun." \n\n"In this country. we vigorously regulate the sale of medicine and severely limit the advertising of cigarettes because of their effect on human health. But we allow virtually anyone in America to buy a gun and virtually everyone in the nation to see graphic violence." \n\n"When I say I was married to the cause, I was married to my husband whom I loved -- I learned to love, it wasn't love at first sight -- but I also became married to the cause. It was my cause, and that's the way I felt about it. So when my husband was no longer there, then I could continue in that cause, and I prayed that God would give me the direction for my life....But then I finally determined that it was the King Center, because Martin's message and his meaning were so powerful....So I felt that my role, then, was to develop an institution, to institutionalize his philosophy, his principles of nonviolence and his methodology of social change, and that's what I have spent my years doing."
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People... We enter into a social contract and make government to protect our rights.  We're willing to give up some rights to protect others. - John Locke in a nutshell.
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"Youth is wasted on the young"\n\n(Ben Franklin, or some other clever person, said that)
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voltaire\n\n"I may not agree with what you say but I'll fight to the death to defend your right to say it"
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Such as this? \n\n\n"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom…must undergo the fatigue of supporting it." \n- Paine, Thomas  (1737-1809)
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A coward worries about death (or other things) all the time. So the person who said the quote is equating worrying all the time to "little deaths". Presumably a soldier goes through life with confidence and only dies upon his (or her) actual cessation of life. The moral of the story is, quit worrying about crap you have no control over!
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A personal hero of mine, Thomas Jefferson. And I think the "illegal" part of their title shows that the quote doesn't apply to them.
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“The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible”\n\n“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”\n\n\n“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”\n\n“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”\n\nIf you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for\nyou...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this\nthing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying\ndown.\n\n“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option”\n\n“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”\n\n“We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.”\n\n“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”\n \n“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”\n\n“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
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In the words of the great Benjamin Franklin, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."\n\n        Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759\n        US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
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"Every now and then the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants."\n\n\n Thomas Jefferson.\n\n\n AKA Hell yeah. Vive la revolution!
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To Bush: "Allthough I do not agree with what you say I shall defend to the death your right to say it."\n\nTo Nixon: "Right on brother down with the establishment."
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"Trust no one but yourself and yourself not too much."
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"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."---George Santayana \n\nIt's not quite the quote you gave, but it's close.