Tan Kin Lian's Blog: Mr. Brown and the election

Sunday, May 01, 2011

Soodo said...: "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom;
and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."
-- Somerset Maugham

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty,
the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom,
go home from us in peace.
We seek not your counsel, nor your arms.
Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you;
and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
-- Samuel Adams

"In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security.
They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all
-- security, comfort, and freedom.
When ... the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free."
-- Sir Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

Source:
http://freedomkeys.com/vigil.htm; May 01, 2011 1:24 PM

Sunday, May 01, 2011