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beautifully written ... brings tears to my eyes.

"We can reopen the Washington Monument when we've defeated our fears, when we've come to accept that placing safety above all other virtues cedes too much power to government and that liberty is worth the risks, and that the price of freedom is accepting the possibility of crime."




They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

--Benjamin Franklin


That was a well written op-ed


Indeed. And I am not even American.

Sometime ago we turned from a species of brave explorers into one of coward couch potatoes.

When we finally give them our world, I hope the cockroaches have better luck.




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