Edward Gibbon
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Quote of the day
“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. ”
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"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
~Thomas jefferson
That one always makes me cry...
This is a great and very true quote, Fausty.
Jefferson was a wise man, DT. Thanks for the quote.
Winston Churchill might've thought so too, Bunni - he said:
"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is."
Which is probably why these truths survive the vagaries of time and the shenanigans of wicked men.
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