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> They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin With a population l

• sbuk 13y ago
  What a facile view of the world. EDIT: Not Franklin's!
• sambeau 13y ago
  "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." – Benjamin Franklin
• comex 13y ago
  Never mind the dubiousness of equating freedom to modify a particular gadget with fundamental civil liberties (there is certainly an analogy, but the parent referred to the former and you leapt at the latter)... the parent doesn't even live in the United States.
  • sambeau 13y ago
    the parent doesn't even live in the United States Nor did Benjamin Franklin for a large part of his life, too :) I won't ask how you know…
    • comex 13y ago
      I checked your post history after guessing based on the phrase "Trading Standards Officers". :)