<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 6:10 PM, John Adams wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal New York; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="New York" size="5" style="font: 16.0px New York">"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty\u2014power is ever stealing</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="New York" size="5" style="font: 16.0px New York">from the many to the few... . The hand entrusted with power becomes</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="New York" size="5" style="font: 16.0px New York"> ... the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="New York" size="5" style="font: 16.0px New York">can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="New York" size="5" style="font: 16.0px New York">only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="New York" size="5" style="font: 16.0px New York">to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity."</FONT></DIV> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal New York; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="New York" size="4" style="font: 14.0px New York">What is the source for this? Didn't read the beginning of this thread but I like this quote.</FONT></DIV> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal New York; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="New York" size="4" style="font: 14.0px New York">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.</FONT>___________________________________</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">That surprises the hell out of me. Marta</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>