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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (713621)	11/16/2005 11:13:14 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"And a too nosey gov't too. And getting worse steadily. Jefferson is likely to prove right in the reasons he gave for the 2nd amendment." Exactly. A slippery slope toward Authoritarianism. It is always the natural tendency of politicians and bureaucrats to seek to exploit temporary crisis, to expand permanently their powers over the public. "The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts." - Edmund Burke "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." - Edmund Burke (1784) "The greatest threats to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Justice Brandeis "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 "Of all the enemies of public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, and the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches..." - James Madison "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 Plunkitt of Tammany Hall memorably asked: "What's the Constitution among friends?" "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin "Timid men... prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous seas of liberty." - Thomas Jefferson