<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 1, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Josh Narins wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="New York" size="4" style="font: 14.0px New York">"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty\u2014power is ever stealing</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="New York" size="4" style="font: 14.0px New York">from the many to the few... . The hand entrusted with power becomes</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="New York" size="4" style="font: 14.0px New York"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>... the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="New York" size="4" style="font: 14.0px New York">can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="New York" size="4" style="font: 14.0px New York">only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="New York" size="4" style="font: 14.0px New York">to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity."</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>What is the source for this? Didn't read the beginning of this thread but I like this quote.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Marta</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>