To: Dead Corpse; xrp
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
- Mary Mccarthy
49 posted on
07/17/2003 2:12:25 PM PDT by
cinFLA
To: cinFLA
"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."
--Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774.
52 posted on
07/17/2003 2:21:30 PM PDT by
freeeee
To: cinFLA
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
-Patrick Henry
55 posted on
07/17/2003 2:40:26 PM PDT by
Dead Corpse
(For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
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