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To: SheLion

Hey SheLion, ain’t seen ya in forever. Not many anti smoking threads that I’ve seen worth posting on lately, read them, but just never posted. But this one deserves a classic quote that seems to fit the person who posted this article and is gleeful that rights are being taken away (and they have the nerve to call themselves conservative?).

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals. But to be punished, however severely, because we have deserved it, because we ‘ought to have known better,’ is to be treated as a human person made in God’s image.” - C.S. Lewis


60 posted on 05/17/2007 10:11:00 PM PDT by MissouriConservative (We accommodate other cultures at the expense of ours.)
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To: MissouriConservative
Hey SheLion, ain’t seen ya in forever. Not many anti smoking threads that I’ve seen worth posting on lately, read them, but just never posted. But this one deserves a classic quote that seems to fit the person who posted this article and is gleeful that rights are being taken away (and they have the nerve to call themselves conservative?).

Hey you!

I'm late tonight. LOL

Oh yes, Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee is one of our biggest Anti-smokers.  And to think he is a Conservative.  ~tisk ~tisk

No wonder our party is going down the toilet.

68 posted on 05/17/2007 10:27:55 PM PDT by SheLion (When you're right, take up the fight!!!!!)
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To: MissouriConservative

been looking for that quote - thanks.


88 posted on 05/18/2007 1:42:20 AM PDT by patton (19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
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To: MissouriConservative; Wheee The People

This quote by C.S. Lewis bears repeating!!

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals. But to be punished, however severely, because we have deserved it, because we ‘ought to have known better,’ is to be treated as a human person made in God’s image.” - C.S. Lewis


97 posted on 05/18/2007 7:55:55 AM PDT by TheKidster (you can only trust government to grow, consolidate power and infringe upon your liberties.)
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