*blank look*
Jun. 2nd, 2009 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Becasue batocchio/digby says it better than I could...

"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of Wisdom." --Thomas Jefferson
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson
"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases." -- John Adams
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." -- John Adams