Re: "My personal liberties are not so fragile...."
If you *think* so, OK.
You are certainly welcome to your opinions in that regard....
However, I certainly disagree:
"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction." --- Ronald Reagan
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts." --- Edmund Burke
"The greatest threats to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." --- Justice Louis Brandeis, 1928
"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad...." --- James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, May 13, 1798.
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes... known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." --- James Madison, 4th U.S. President, Political Observations, 1795
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." --- H. L. Mencken
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws." --- Ayn Rand
"Timid men... prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous seas of liberty." --- Thomas Jefferson
"When the people fear the government, you have TYRANNY, when the government fears the people, you have FREEDOM" --- Thomas Jefferson |
