[lbo-talk] happiness pays?

[John Adams]

>> "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty\u2014power is ever stealing
>> from the many to the few... . The hand entrusted with power becomes
>>  ... the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight
>> can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot:
>> only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently 
>> awake
>> to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity."
>
> What is the source for this?  Didn't read the beginning of this thread 
> but I like this quote.

I'm pretty sure Barry Goldwater said this, exactly forty-two years ago, 
on April 1, 1964, in a Tupelo, Mississippi campaign appearance with 
Jackie Robinson.
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