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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Tenets To Live By (None Being George, Thank You)

Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

The chain reaction of evil - wars producing more wars - must be broken or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
- Senator Robert LaFollette

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official...
- Theodore Roosevelt

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
- Noam Chomsky

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Albert Einstein

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