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[csberry]

I love refdesk.com! If you don't use it, you must. Anyways...they have a thought for the day. Today's I thought was especially good at explaining what I consider the biggest (definitely Top 3) fault on the part of politicians:

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Justice Louis Brandeis

Whenever you hate something a politician does, see if the above doesn't apply. Unless you're gonna be a cynical conspiracy theorist, I would say most political problems fit.

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[peteydaddy.livejournal.com]

What an excellent quote.

I like this one:
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" - Benjamin Franklin

[csberry.livejournal.com]

It was a given that whenever we discussed security/defense/whatever that we would get calls of people who wanted to share that quote on the air.

[outherelistenin.livejournal.com]

Understanding this simple principle and seeing conspiracies are mutually exclusive?

[csberry.livejournal.com]

That's not what I'm trying to say. Note that I said "cynical conspiracy theorist."

There are numerous people who absolutely refuse to believe that people with political beliefs other than their own actually can be good, noble people with good intentions. Thus everything the other side does has some evil motivation behind it. To the people that have a black and white view, the principle is contradictory to their world outlook.